So we have our primates that creates the RNA primer that is shown in green. And the RNA primer is basically a series of nucleotides that signal the beginning of our replication. It signals for our DNA polymerase shown in red to bind to that primer region and initiate our replication process. We also have the SSB proteins that bind to the individual strands thereby stabilizing them which keeps them apart and keeps them from reforming that double helix. And as time progresses our DNA polymerase shown in red basically moves along our parent strand and synthesizes our daughter strand one nucleotide at a time. Now, two important things that we have to remember about DNA replication is the following two concepts.