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Chapter 14: Q. 30 (page 368)

What are Okazaki fragments and how they are formed?

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Small pieces of DNA known as Okazaki fragments are created during DNA replication's discontinuous synthesis of the lagging strand.

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Introduction 

The small DNA nucleotide sequences are known as Okazaki fragments. In order to create the lagging strand during DNA replication, they are intermittently produced and then further linked by the ligase enzyme.

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The explanation for the answer. 

Okazaki fragments are produced on lagging strands as a result of the primosome producing a fresh RNA primer. For the purpose of synthesising DNA in a 5鈥� to 3鈥� direction toward the replication fork, Okazaki fragments are produced on the lagging strand.

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If the sequence of the 5'-3' strand is AATGCTAC, then the complementary sequence has the following sequence: a. 3'-AATGCTAC-5' b. 3'-CATCGTAA-5' c. 3'-TTACGATG-5' d. 3'-GTAGCATT-5'

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b. 3'-5'

c. 5'

d. 3'

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