Hypernyms (to doodle is one way to...): draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface). Doodle entails doing...: delineate; describe; draw; line; trace (make a mark or lines on a surface).
DNA polymerases can only extend a DNA strand in a 5â² to 3â² direction, different mechanisms are used to copy the antiparallel strands of the double helix. In this way, the base on the old strand dictates which base appears on the new strand.
Since DNA replication moves along the parent strand in the 5' to 3' direction, replication can occur very easily on the leading strand. As seen in , the nucleotides are added in the 5' to 3' direction. Triggered by RNA primase, which adds the first nucleotide to the nascent chain, the DNA polymerase simply sits near the replication fork, moving as the fork does, adding nucleotides one after the other, preserving the proper anti-parallel orientation.