Hi there, nice to meet you, what are you doing?
My name is Helicase, and I'm unzipping and unwinding this DNA double helix starting at the replication origin.
Cool! I'm DNA Polymerase. need any help?
That would be great actually! Can you help replicate each strand of DNA by pairing adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine?
Are you talking about Complementary base paring !!!
They work, work, but one was lagging behind
DNA Polymerase are adding all of the nucleotides to the leading strand.
We need to make sure Helicase and Primase are moving in opposite directions, 5' to 3' and 3' to 5'
Thanks a lot!
My name is Primase, and I can add RNA primers to the lagging strand so that you can synthesize it.
They worked together to synthesize the lagging strand. Primase added primers to sections of the strand, and then DNA Polymerase added nucleotides.
Primer
Lagging Strand of DNA
Replication origin
Tip: Remember Adenine and Thymine, with Apple and Tree.
AND pair Guanine and Cytosine with Garage and Car.
5'
3'
3'
5'
The DNA strand is Semi Conservative, as half is new and half is old
The hydrogen bonds are the small beads at the end of the dna