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When the Lagging Daughter Strand of DNA Is Synthesized, Unreplicated

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When the lagging daughter strand of DNA is synthesized, unreplicated gaps are formed on the parental DNA. Lagging strand synthesis fills these gaps by


A) synthesizing short Okazaki fragments in a 5´-to-3´ direction.
B) synthesizing multiple short RNA primers to initiate DNA replication.
C) using DNA polymerase I to remove RNA primers from Okazaki fragments.
D) filling in those gaps with new strands of complementary DNA as the replication fork proceeds.
E) All of the above

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