A consensus sequence is, in each case a version of the sequence having at each position the nucleotide (or amino acid) most commonly found there in different examples. Thus, the consensus sequence for promoters in E. coli recognized by RNA polymerase containing s70

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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.

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The bacterial DnaA protein is the replication initiator; it binds sequence specifically to multiple sites (dnaA boxes) in oriC.

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Activity of the replication origin is controlled is DNA methylation