This forms two replication forks that move along ... Today, scientists know that the Okazaki fragments of bacterial DNA are typically between 1,000 and 2,000 nucleotides long, whereas in ...

The primase produces a very short RNA molecule (an RNA primer) at the 58 end of each Okazaki fragment onto which ... are needed for DNA replication. These include a set of initiator proteins ...

An analogous process occurs during chromosomal DNA replication, whereby the 5’-RNA segments that prime discontinuous synthesis of Okazaki fragments are excised, and the intervening gaps are filled in ...

However, the idea that replication forks would form at origins of DNA replication and proceed without impairment ... on that strand is already geared to constantly initiate new Okazaki fragments. Thus ...