BIO 112 Chapter 9: ReadingNotes_Sept. 23

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Separation of the hydrogen bond donor and acceptor groups on each dna base lets them become exposed for base pairing with each appropriate nucleotide. Each of the two old dna strands serves as a template for the formation of an entire new strand. The new dna contains a strand for the one old strand and a new strand. The replication fork is the site where the dna is unraveled. Daughter strands polymerase in the 5" to 3" direction and the other one (lagging strand) will go from the 3" to 5" end. Okazaki fragments: polarized in only the 5" to 3" direction and joined later together. Dna strand that is synthesized continuously is known as the leading strand. The high fidelity of dna replication, however, depends not only on complementary base-pairing but also on several proofreading mechanisms that act sequentially to correct any initial mispairing that might have occurred.

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