This entails release of DnaC, which allows the DnaB helicase to become active. DnaC hydrolyzes ATP in order to release DnaB. This step marks the transition from initiation to elongation.

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The entire genome must be replicated precisely, once for every cell division.

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Once replication has started, it continues until the entire genome has been duplicated.

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The unit of DNA in which an individual act of replication occurs is called the replicon

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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.