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Q. Replication in E. coli DNA starts in a definite region known as

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Molecular Basis of Inheritance

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DNA replication does not initiate randomly at any place in DNA. Replication starts at a specific region termed as the origin of replication. In Eukaryotes, there is multiple origins of replication but in prokaryotes, there is an only a single origin of replication.