lagging strand
English
Noun
lagging strand (plural lagging strands)
- (genetics) The strand of DNA that is replicated from the 5' to the 3' direction.
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Translations
a strand of new DNA whose direction of synthesis is opposite to the direction of the growing replication fork
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