Okazaki fragment

English

Etymology

Named after Japanese molecular biologist Reiji Okazaki (1930–1975), the leader of its discoverers in the 1960s.

Noun

Okazaki fragment (plural Okazaki fragments)

1. (genetics, often in the plural) One of many short, newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand (i.e. lagging strand) during DNA replication.

Translations

one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication

• Arabic: شَظَايَا أُوكَازَاكِي f (šaẓāyā ʔūkāzākī), قَطْع أُوكَازَاكِي m (qaṭʕ ʔūkāzākī)
• Armenian: Օկազակիի հատված (Ōkazakii hatvac), Օկազակիի ֆրագմենտ (Ōkazakii fragment)
• Catalan: fragment d'Okazaki m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岡崎片段／冈崎片段 (Gāngqí piànduàn)

• Czech: Okazakiho fragment m
• Dutch: Okazaki-fragment n
• Finnish: Okazakin fragmentti (fi)
• French: fragment d’Okazaki m
• Galician: fragmento de Okazaki m
• German: Okazaki-Fragment n
• Greek: θραύσματο του Οκαζάκι n (thráfsmato tou Okazáki)
• Hebrew: מִקְטָע אוֹקָזָקִי m (miktá Okazáki)
• Hungarian: Okazaki-fragmentum
• Indonesian: fragmen Okazaki
• Italian: frammento di Okazaki m
• Japanese: 岡崎フラグメント (おかざきフラグメント, Okazaki-furagumento)
• Korean: 오카자키 절편 (Okajaki jeolpyeon)
• Occitan: fragment d'Okazaki m
• Polish: fragment Okazaki m, odcinek Okazaki m
• Portuguese: fragmento de Okazaki m
• Russian: фрагме́нт Оказа́ки m (fragmént Okazáki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Оказакијев фра̀гмент m

  Roman: Okazakijev fràgment m

• Slovak: Okazakiho fragment m
• Spanish: fragmento de Okazaki m
• Tamil: ஒகசாகியின் துண்டு (okacākiyiṉ tuṇṭu)
• Turkish: Okazaki parçası
• Ukrainian: фрагме́нт Оказа́кі m (frahmént Okazáki)

See also

• lagging strand