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Okazaki fragment: a standalone construct

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Molecular biology

short DNA pieces made on the lagging strand during replication and later joined into a continuous strand.

In molecular biology, Okazaki fragment refers to short DNA pieces made on the lagging strand during replication and later joined into a continuous strand. This meaning comes from Okazaki (1968) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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replication4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs short3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs strand1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Okazaki, R., Okazaki, T., Sakabe, K., Sugimoto, K., & Sugino, A. (1968). Mechanism of DNA chain growth. I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 59(2), 598-605. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.59.2.598

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