Cabo San Lucas, Mexico â Residents and tourists hunkered down in shelters and hotel conference rooms overnight as a powerful and sprawling Hurricane Odile made landfall on the southern Baja California peninsula.
DNA replication is one of the most basic processes that occurs within a cell. Each time a cell divides, the two resulting daughter cells must contain exactly the same genetic information, or DNA, as the parent cell. To accomplish this, each strand of existing DNA acts as a template for replication.
Prokaryotic replication is relatively simple. The copying of the DNA strands begins at a single point of origin on the prokaryotic chromosome, and only one replication fork and bubble is formed during replication. Prokaryotic DNA replication is speedy, about 2,000 base pairs per second.