Morphogen is a diffusable biochemical molecule that can determine the fate of a cell by its concentration.

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Most chromosomal replicons do not have a termination region like that of bacteria at which the replication forks cease movement and (presumably) dissociate from the DNA. 

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individual replicons in eukaryotic genomes are relatively small, typically -40 kb in yeast or flies and -100 kb in animal cells.

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Origins in S. cerevisiae are short A-T sequences that have an essential 11-bp sequence.

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The ORC is a complex of six proteins that binds to an ARS.

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Related ORC complexes are found in multicellular eukaryotes.

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an ARS for autonomously replicating sequence, ARS elements are derived from origins of replication.