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Discontinuous synthesis of DNA occurs in one strand, because:

It is because DNA dependent DNA polymerase catalyses polymerisation only in one direction (5’ → 3’).So, the new strand to be formed in 3’→5’ is synthesised in short fragments, called Okazaki fragments which are then joined together by DNA ligase enzyme.


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