Sumayah Hassan

Posts Tagged ‘Biology’

Okazaki – 2

In Creatures, Happenings, Life on January 8, 2008 at 8:35 am

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An Okazaki fragment is a piece of DNA that is made in the opposite direction of the normal strand. It is a part of the new DNA, but has to be glued to other fragments to make a complete strand. An enzyme called ligase sticks them (fragments) together and when it is part of the bigger strand it can be translated into a functional protein. But on its own, it doesn’t code for anything and is a nonsense piece of genetic information.

Like I would be, If i didn’t have my other fragments :)

So I guess were all O-frags and MAS is our glue and when we work together we make functional proteins.

Wild analogy.

I know.