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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

OKAZAKI, Reiji (1930 – 1975)

1930 – 1975

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1968 CE

#13987

Mechanism of DNA chain growth, I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains.

OKAZAKI, Tsuneko (1933 – )
OKAZAKI, Tsuneko (1933 – ) OKAZAKI, Reiji (1930 – 1975) & et al.

The Okazakis discovered what became known as Okazaki fragments, short sequences of DNA nucleotides (approximately 150 to 200 base pairs long in eukaryotes) which are synthesized discontinuously and later linked togeth…