Sentence Examples. Â» more... It's peanut butter and jelly. I pushed the door slowly and found a case of water bottles, bread, peanut butter, crackers, cheese and several sealed containers of fruits and puddings.
discontinuous-not continuing without interruption in time or space; discontinuous applause; the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas; he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling. noncontinuous.
These fragments are then stitched together by DNA ligase, creating a continuous strand. This type of replication is called discontinuous. As you can see in the figure above, the first synthesized Okazaki fragment on the lagging strand is the furthest away from the replication fork, which is itself receding to the right.