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Eduncle posted an MCQ
December 27, 2019 • 22:27 pm 0 points
  • CSIR NET
  • Life Sciences

E coli takes 40 min to duplicate its genome using a bi-directional mode of replication. If E coli were to use uni-directional mode of replication of synthesize a full copy of DNA complementary to just one of the strands of the genome, it would take

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    Unidirectional replication requires double time as compared to bidirectional replication. Therefore, 80 minutes would be required to replicate its genome by unidirectional replication as compared to 40 min in bidirectional mode of replication.

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