Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Lecture, chapter 5 - DNA replication

Today we covered most of chapter 5, on DNA replication. We talked about the replication fork and the replisome (all the enzymes that are part of the replication fork), including the difference in between how the leading and lagging strands are synthesized.

We also mentioned how important DNA looping is for the lagging strand to be synthesized. This video illustrates such phenomenon beautifully:




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2 comments:

Jen said...

This was so incredibly helpful.

Alonso Córdoba said...

I am glad it helped... (and that somebody actually paid attention!)