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.
Biologists refer to the two ends of a DNA strand as 5' and 3'. In the double helix structure, the two strands point in opposite directions, with the 5' end of one strand paired with the 3' end of the other strand and vice versa. DNA Replication. DNA replication begins when the DNA double helix unwinds. The open region containing the separated DNA strands is called the replication bubble. Imagine a replication bubble where the top strand has its 5' end on the left and its 3' end on its right.