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Describe, in detail, how synthesis of a lagging strandof DNA occurs and WHY it is discontinuous. Be as descriptive aspossible.

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A famous Japanese molecular biologist Reiji Okazaki claimed that DNA backbones run in opposite directions Okazaki found that a significant proportion of newly synthesized DNA exists as small fragments These units of about a thousand nucleotides called Okazaki fragments are present briefly in the vicinity of the replication fork During replication    See Answer
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