Duplications and deletions often arise from unequal crossing over.

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“Replicon” is usually applied to eukaryotic chromosomes to describe a unit of replication that contains an origin; trans-acting regulator protein

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A replicon has origin at which replication is initiated. It may also have a terminus at which replication stops.

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A genome in a bacterial cell has a single replication origin and thus constitutes a single replicon.

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Each haploid bacterium typically has a single chromosome, so this type of replication control is called single copy.

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The single circular chromosomes of Sulfolobus species have three origins and thus are composed of three replicons.

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Each eukaryotic chromosome contains a large number of replicons spaced unevenly throughout the chromosomes.