“…Since then discontinuous DNA synthesis has been repeatedly demonstrated in bacteria (Okazaki et al, 19 68a, b;Yudelevich et al , 1968;Geider & Hoffman-Berling, 1971;Wang & Sternglanz, 1972;Dingman et al, 1974) and in phage (Sadowski et al, 1968;Polsinelli et al J 1969;, and eviden ce was obtaine d showing that all the Okazaki pieces are made in the 5 1 ----+3' direction . Only Werner and coworkers disagree with this scheme, claiming that Okazaki fragments are made through a process of random 11 crystallization" of nucleotides on the parental template rather than sequentially in a 51~31 direction (Diaz et a1., 1975;Diaz & Werner, 1975).…”