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DNA – semiconservative replication
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Overview of DNA
Replication• DNA replication is semiconservative and
bidirectional.
DNA polymerases can only add deoxynucleotides to 3’ ends. As a result strands are synthesized only in the 5’ to 3’ direction.
• Both strands at the replication forks are synthesized at the same time.
• Thus, at the replication fork the leading strand is synthesized continuously, but the lagging strand is made discontinuously as Okasaki fragments.