And each one of these fragments is known as the Okasagi fragments, after the scientist who basically discovered this process. Now, once all of these Okasaki fragments are actually synthesized, our polymerase removes our RNA primers and replaces with our nucleotides. And an enzyme known as DNA ligase basically connects these Okasagi fragments together and that completes the synthesis or the replication of our lagging strand. And once this process is over, we basically produce two identical copies of the original DNA and each one of these two identical copies each contains the original pan strand as well as the newly synthesized strand. And this is known as a semiconservative process. Now, notice in this diagram that on this parent strand, the DNA polymerase moved in the forward direction, but this DNA polymerase moved in the reverse backward direction.