Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
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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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.
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Each haploid bacterium typically has a single chromosome, so this type of replication control is called single copy.