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The diploid set of chromosomes in Drosophila embryos replicates six times faster than the single E. coli chromosome, even though there is about 100 times more DNA in Drosophila than in E. coli and the rate of movement of the replication fork in Drosophila is much slower. How is this so?
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Eukaryotic chromosomes duplicate rapidly because DNA replication initiates at many origins of replication throughout the genome. In E. coli, there is only one replicon, while in eukaryotes there are multiple, smaller replicons.
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