During replication, the lagging strand is synthesized as Okazaki fragments because:
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A
DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides in the 3' to 5' direction
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B
DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides in the 5' to 3' direction, which runs away from the fork on that strand
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C
Helicase moves too slowly on the lagging strand
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D
The lagging strand has no template