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Chapter 14: Q. 31 (page 368)

If the rate of replication in a particular prokaryote is 900 nucleotides per second, how long would it take 1.2 million base pair genomes to make two copies?

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22.2 minutes, or 1333 seconds.

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Introduction 

Prokaryotic DNA is circular in form, with one origin from which replication proceeds. It is semi-conservative and bidirectional. Like eukaryotes, prokaryotes have double-stranded DNA that unwinds at a replication fork to start the replication process. Prokaryotes replicate using three fundamental steps. Initiation, elongation, and termination are their names.

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The explanation for the answer. 

Replication can happen in the prokaryotic bacterium E. coli at a pace of 1,000 nucleotides per second. Human eukaryotic DNA duplicates at a rate of 50 nucleotides per second, in contrast. So, the answer is 22.2 minutes or 1333 seconds.

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