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The resulting stretch of newly synthesized DNA that is associated with this lagging or discontinuous strand is called an Okazaki fragment. Okazaki fragments, as with DNA replication in general, requires RNA priming, which serves as the beginning of an Okazaki fragment.
1 Chunks of DNA, called Okazaki fragments, are then added to the lagging strand also in the 5â to 3â direction. 2  This type of replication is called discontinuous as the Okazaki fragments will need to be joined up later.