Indicator species - Some species demonstrate health of community 

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

By counting the number of sites to which ORC binds, we can estimate that there are about 400 origins of replication in the yeast genome. This means that the average length of a replicon is -35,000 bp.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

ORC was first found in S. cerevisiae (where it may be called scORC),but similar complexes have now been characterized in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (spORC), Drosophila (DmORC ), and Xenopus (XIORC).

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

ORC is an initiation complex whose binding identifies an origin of replication.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The yeast ARS elements satisfy the classic definition of an origin as a cis-acting sequence that causes DNA replication to initiate.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Reconciliation between this phenomenon and the use of ORCs is suggested by the discovery that environmental effects can influence the use of origins.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

A nucleus injected into a Xenopus egg can replicate only once unless the nuclear membrane is permeabilized to allow subsequent replication cycles