The enzyme primase builds short RNA segments called _______, required before DNA polymerase can build the complementary strand of DNA

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The enzyme primase builds short RNA segments called _______, required before DNA polymerase can build the complementary strand of DNA

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Those short segments are called "okazaki fragments"

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