February 12, 2011 - Track & Field Menâs and Womenâs Track and Field Top Yale, Fall to Princeton at HYP Meet In its final meet before the Heptagonal Championships, the Harvard track and field team turned in a pair of second-place finishes at the annual HYP...
An Okazaki fragment is a relatively short fragment of DNA (with an RNA primer at the 5' terminus) created on the lagging strand during DNA replication. It was originally discovered in 1968 by Reiji Okazaki, Tsuneko Okazaki, and their colleagues while studying replication of bacteriophage DNA in Escherichia coli.
The removal of the RNA primer and addition of DNA nucleotides to the 3' end of Okazaki fragments in its place is carried out by _____. () The unwinding of DNA at the replication fork causes twisting and strain in the DNA ahead of the fork, which is relieved by an enzyme called _____.