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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').
You now know that Okazaki fragments are the fragments of DNA that are created when the complementary strand to the lagging strand is created. They occur because of the fact that the lagging strand is exposed in the 3' - 5' direction, while DNA synthesis has to occur in the 5' - 3' direction. You know that the fragments were named after Reiji Okazaki, the scientist who discovered the fragments.