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📘 DNA replication

Semiconservative: one old strand, one new.

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What you’ll learn

  1. At the forkExplain semiconservative replication, 5-prime-to-3-prime synthesis, and Okazaki fragments at a fork.Separate strands, respect polymerase direction, and name primers, fragments, and ligase on the lagging side.

Questions this course answers

What does semiconservative mean?

Each product retains one parental strand.

Why are Okazaki fragments needed?

Antiparallel strands force discontinuous synthesis on one template.

Which end does DNA polymerase extend?

Polymerase adds nucleotides to a free 3-prime end.

What starts a new DNA chain before polymerase extends it?

Primase provides the short RNA primer polymerase extends.

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