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Okazaki fragment

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural, often

Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

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History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: شَظَايَا أُوكَازَاكِي (šaẓāyā ʔūkāzākī) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Arabic: قَطْع أُوكَازَاكِي (qaṭʕ ʔūkāzākī) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Armenian: Օկազակիի հատված (Ōkazakii hatvac) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Armenian: Օկազակիի ֆրագմենտ (Ōkazakii fragment) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Catalan: fragment d'Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Chinese Mandarin: 岡崎片段 /冈崎片段 (Gāngqí piànduàn) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Czech: Okazakiho fragment — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Dutch: Okazaki-fragment — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Finnish: Okazakin fragmentti — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • French: fragment d'Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Galician: fragmento de Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • German: Okazaki-Fragment — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Greek: θραύσματο του Οκαζάκι (thráfsmato tou Okazáki) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Hebrew: מִקְטָע אוֹקָזָקִי (miktá Okazáki) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Hungarian: Okazaki-fragmentum — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Indonesian: fragmen Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Italian: frammento di Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Japanese: 岡崎フラグメント (Okazaki-furagumento) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Korean: 오카자키 절편 (Okajaki jeolpyeon) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Occitan: fragment d'Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Polish: fragment Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Polish: odcinek Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Portuguese: fragmento de Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Russian: фрагме́нт Оказа́ки (fragmént Okazáki) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Serbo-Croatian: Оказакијев фра̀гмент — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Serbo-Croatian: Okazakijev fràgment — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Slovak: Okazakiho fragment — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Spanish: fragmento de Okazaki — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Tamil: ஒகசாகியின் துண்டு (okacākiyiṉ tuṇṭu) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Turkish: Okazaki parçası — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication
  • Ukrainian: фрагме́нт Оказа́кі (frahmént Okazáki) — one of many newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand during replication