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    near perfect fidelity for DNA replication. In a cell, DNA replication begins at specific locations (origins of replication) in the genome which contains...
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    Eukaryotic DNA replication is a conserved mechanism that restricts DNA replication to once per cell cycle. Eukaryotic DNA replication of chromosomal DNA is central...
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    Prokaryotic DNA replication is the process by which a prokaryote duplicates its DNA into another copy that is passed on to daughter cells. Although it...
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    The origin of replication (also called the replication origin) is a particular sequence in a genome at which replication is initiated. Propagation of the...
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    DNA replication stress refers to the state of a cell whose genome is exposed to various stresses. The events that contribute to replication stress occur...
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  • Semiconservative replication describes the mechanism of DNA replication in all known cells. DNA replication occurs on multiple origins of replication along the DNA template...
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    points of origin. Multiple replication forks open up, allowing replication machinery to transcribe the DNA. As replication continues, the forks grow and...
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    of DNA. These enzymes are essential for DNA replication and usually work in groups to create two identical DNA duplexes from a single original DNA duplex...
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    DNA re-replication (or simply rereplication) is an undesirable and possibly fatal occurrence in eukaryotic cells in which the genome is replicated more...
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    DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is the primary enzyme complex involved in prokaryotic DNA replication. It was discovered by Thomas Kornberg (son of Arthur...
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    prokaryotes, DNA replication occurs when specific topoisomerases, helicases and gyrases (replication initiator proteins) uncoil the double-stranded DNA, exposing...
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    into DNA strands during processes such as transcription and DNA replication. DNA exists in many possible conformations that include A-DNA, B-DNA, and...
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  • cause aging. (Also see DNA damage theory of aging.) In replicating cells, such as cells lining the colon, errors occur upon replication of past damages in...
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    proteins and nucleic acids. Virus replication occurs in seven stages: Attachment Entry (penetration) Uncoating Replication Assembly Maturation Release (liberation...
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    bacteria chromosome replication is best understood in the well-studied bacteria Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. Chromosome replication proceeds in three...
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    eukaryotes, DNA replication takes place in the nucleus. A plethora replication form in just one replicating DNA molecule, the start of DNA replication is moved...
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    circle replication (RCR) is a process of unidirectional nucleic acid replication that can rapidly synthesize multiple copies of circular molecules of DNA or...
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  • non-coding DNA fraction include regulatory sequences that control gene expression; scaffold attachment regions; origins of DNA replication; centromeres;...
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    "assisted replication" than "self-replication". In 2021 researchers succeeded in constructing a system with sixteen specially designed DNA sequences....
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  • of DNA duplication is usually called replication. The replication is termed semiconservative since each new cell contains one strand of original DNA and...
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    polyadenylation site. dsDNA viruses make use of several mechanisms to replicate their genome. Bidirectional replication, in which two replication forks are established...
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    molecular biology that are used to assemble recombinant DNA molecules and to direct their replication within host organisms. The use of the word cloning refers...
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    These events include the growth of the cell, duplication of its DNA (DNA replication) and some of its organelles, and subsequently the partitioning of...
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    viral proteins needed for viral replication. This process is catalyzed by a viral RNA dependent RNA polymerase. A DNA transcription unit encoding for...
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    DNA polymerase I (or Pol I) is an enzyme that participates in the process of prokaryotic DNA replication. Discovered by Arthur Kornberg in 1956, it was...
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  • D-loop replication is a proposed process by which circular DNA like chloroplasts and mitochondria replicate their genetic material. An important component...
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    of DNA replication of plasmids with different replication origins and found that certain plasmids exhibited a delay in the inhibition of replication when...
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    DnaB helicase is an enzyme in bacteria which opens the replication fork during DNA replication. Although the mechanism by which DnaB both couples ATP...
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    called the replicator to start DNA replication. It is a replication initiation factor which promotes the unwinding of DNA at oriC. The DnaA proteins found...
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    is called DNA replication, and it takes place by first unwinding the duplex DNA molecule, starting at many locations called DNA replication origins, followed...
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