The two cores have different abilities to dissociate from DNA. This corresponds to the need to synthesize 

a continuous leading strand (where polymerase remains associated  with the template) and 

a discontinuous lagging strand (where polymerase repetitively dissociates and reassociates)

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Inactivation of the X chromosome in females is governed by the n–1 rule

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Regardless of how many X chromosomes are present, all but one will be inactivated. 

In normal females there are of course two X chromosomes, but in rare cases where nondisjunction has generated a 3X or greater genotype, only one X chromosome remains active

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Xic is a cis-acting locus that contains the information necessary to count X chromosomes and inactivate all copies but one. Inactivation spreads from Xic along the entire X chromosome.

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Xic is a complex genetic locus that expresses several long noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). The most important of these is a gene called Xist (X  (X inactive specific transcript), which is stably expressed only on the inactive X chromosome.

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The Xist transcript is regulated in a negative manner by Tsix, its antisense partner.

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To modify DNA at a new position requires the action of a de novo methyltransferase, which recognizes DNA by virtue of a specific sequence. It acts only on unmethylated DNA to add a methyl group to one strand.