Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 21 (May 24, 2016), pp. 5916-5921 (6 pages) DNA replication occurs semidiscontinuously due to the ...
“the lagging strand polymerase synthesizes DNA faster than the leading strand polymerase.” DNA replication occurs at the replication fork, which forms when DNA is unwound by a helicase into strands ...