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.
Once the DNA has been pried apart, RNA primers enter, one binds to each strand of DNA, and then DNA replication proceeds in a 5' to 3' direction. It is important to realize that there are two 5' to 3' replications happening simultaneously. These two replications are each called a replication fork.