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.
During DNA replication, this is DNA template in combination with newly synthesized DNA constructed from Okazaki fragments. The lagging strand is called the lagging strand because there is a substantial delay in the replication of that strand relative to the leading strand.uring DNA replication, this is DNA template in combination with newly synthesized DNA constructed from Okazaki fragments. The lagging strand is called the lagging strand because there is a substantial delay in the replication of that strand relative to the leading strand.