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In one sentence the strands act "independently", in the next sentence they are synchronizing via halts and speed ups. What am I missing?
by singularity2001 9y ago
In one sentence the strands act "independently", in the next sentence they are synchronizing via halts and speed ups. What am I missing?
- icegreentea2 9y agoIt's a bit subtle. What they found is that the polymerease step (the actual duplication) is independent, but the helicase step (this unwinds the original double strand DNA) has some sort of mechanism to limit the difference between the two strands.