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Unit 3 Part 2 - Ch 16: Molecular Basis of Inheritance
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Lagging strand? Okazaki fragments? DNA Ligase?
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- To elongate the other new strand, called the lagging strand, DNA polymerase must work in the direction away from the replication fork - The lagging strand is synthesized as a series of segments called Okazaki fragments, which are joined together by DNA ligase [see image]
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![- To elongate the other new strand, called the lagging strand, DNA polymerase must work in the direction away from the replication fork
- The lagging strand is synthesized as a series of segments called Okazaki fragments, which are joined together by DNA ligase
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