Question

As the two parental (template) DNA strands separate at a replication fork, each of the strands is separately copied by a DNA polymerase III (orange), producing two new daughter strands (light blue), each complementary to its respective parental strand. Because the two parental strands are antiparallel, the two new strands (the leading and lagging strands) cannot be synthesized in the same way.

Drag each phrase to the appropriate bin depending on whether it describes the synthesis of the leading strand, the synthesis of the lagging strand, or the synthesis of both strands.

Answer 1

Leading Strand: It is made continuously

only one primer is needed

the daughter strand elongates toward the replication fork

Lagging Strand: it is made in segments

multiple primers are needed

the daughter strand elongates away from replication fork

Both: synthesized from five prime to three prime