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= Okazaki fragments
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Okazaki fragments are short sequences of nucleotides that are synthesized on the lagging strand during DNA replication. Since DNA strands are antiparallel and replication occurs in a 5' to 3' direction, the lagging strand cannot be continuously synthesized in the same direction as the replication fork. Instead, it is synthesized in short segments.