Okazaki Fragments
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DNA Replication — Essentials of Genetics▶ 14:12They can't start a new chain from scratch on a bare templateRight, so how does the very first nucleotide get added, or how do they start those Okazaki fragments we'll get toThat's where an ingenious, slightly counterintuitive solution comes inSynthesis of DNA — Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach▶ 8:02ExactlyThis creates many small disconnected segments known as Okazaki fragments, which are synthesized away from the direction the replication fork is movingImagine one continuous highway being built, and another road built section by section, like short, unconnected on -rampsThe Molecular Basis of Inheritance — Campbell Biology in Focus▶ 11:45ExactlyThis strand, the lagging strand, is synthesized discontinuously in a series of short segments called Okazaki fragmentsOkazaki fragments