Molecular Biology of the Gene 7th Edition by Richard Losick, James Watson, Michael Levine, Tamara Baker, Alexander Gann

Exercise 9

Shown below is a long template strand of DNA where lagging strand DNA synthesis is occurring. The short horizontal lines represent two Okazaki fragments that have already been made. In the context of the replication fork, select the letter (a-d) that indicates where primase will synthesize the next RNA primer. Why did you choose that location?