Professional Documents
Culture Documents
DNA Replication Flowchart
DNA Replication Flowchart
DNA Replication Flowchart
The single strand parental DNA is stabilized using single-strand binding protein until
The bases are supplied by the dNTP which stands for nucleoside triphosphate
zed by a series of segments called Okazaki fragments (catalyzed by Primase)
The primer is needed and serves as the starting point of the new DNA strand at the 3 end
The double helix of the DNA unwinds at the replication fork catalyzed by the e
Bases (complementary to the bases on the parental strand) are added after the primer (by means of complementary-base pairing)
cleotides of primer from the 5 end and replaces them with DNA nucleotides
Since the DNA Polymerase cannot initiate synthesis of polynucleotides at the 3 end
The Y-shaped region where the new DNA strand elongates is the replic
EN LEADING STRAND IS PRODUCED exceptit starts at 5 end and
The primer is a sequence of nucleotides (5-10 units long)
At the 3 end, the Primer acts as a starting point of replication
The two DNA strands separated, opening up a replication bub
RNA
Primase
startsatRNA
chain from scratch
is synthesized by a series of
segments
Okazaki
fragments
DNA
Pol IIIcalled
catalyzes
the elongation
of the
new
DNA strand
the replication
fork using the parental DNA, producing a primer
Begins at the origin of replication