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The synthesis of DNA is discontinuous on one strand of the replication fork because:

• This occurs due to the addition of the deoxyribonucleotides to the free 3’ end of the template strand.


• Thus the replication on 5' → 3' is discontinuous.


• However the discontinuous strands synthesised are joined using DNA ligase enzyme.

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