Biology / Unit 6 Bio 1229 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Tracing One Replication Fork from Origin to Ligation
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The idea
This procedure traces one replication fork's machinery from the origin of replication through helicase, primase, both strands, and ligase to one continuous new molecule.
Where people slip
The leading and lagging strands are synthesized by the same enzymes under the same 5'-to-3' rule — they differ in geometry, not in the chemistry of synthesis.
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