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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').
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.