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An Okazaki fragment is a short length of DNA used to form a growing lagging strand in replicating DNA. Okazaki fragments allow the lagging strand to be synthesized in the 5' to 3' direction while the strand actually grows in the direction of the replication fork (3' to 5').n Okazaki fragment is a short length of DNA used to form a growing lagging strand in replicating DNA. Okazaki fragments allow the lagging strand to be synthesized in the 5' to 3' direction while the strand actually grows in the direction of the replication fork (3' to 5').
A series of experiments eventually lead to the discovery of Okazaki fragments. The experiments (see below) were conducted during the 1960s with Reiji Okazaki, Tsuneko Okazaki, Kiwako Sakabe and their colleagues during their research on DNA replication of Escherichia coli.