Eukaryotic replication is similar in most aspects to bacterial replication. It is semiconservative, bidirectional, and semidiscontinuous.

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Par-1 protein organizes microtubules specifically with their minus and plus ends at the anterior and posterior ends of the oocyte, respectively

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Bicoid mRNA binds to dynein, a “minus-directed” motor protein associated with the nongrowing end of microtubules; dynein moves the bicoid mRNA to the anterior end of the egg. 

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Oskar mRNA becomes complexed to kinesin I, a “plus-directed” motor protein that moves it toward the growing end of the microtubules at the posterior region, where Oskar protein can bind nanos mRNA

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The inhibition of Oskar translation is mediated by two proteins- 

Bruno

Cup

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