Question

place the steps of prokaryotic dna replication in order, from the bacterium initiating dna replication to dna‑replication termination.

Answer 1

Initiation: The replication process begins when the helicase enzyme unwinds the double helix structure of the DNA, creating a replication fork.

Priming: The primase enzyme binds to the single-stranded DNA and synthesizes a short RNA primer.

Elongation: The DNA polymerase III enzyme binds to the RNA primer and begins to extend the new strand by adding nucleotides in the 5' to 3' direction.

Lagging strand synthesis: Okazaki fragments are created by DNA polymerase III and later joined by ligase enzyme.

Termination: The replication process ends when the two replication forks meet and the two new daughter DNA molecules are fully formed.