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What are the three types of DNA replication?


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DNA Replication:

  1. The process in which the DNA makes multiple copies of itself is known as DNA replication.
  2. DNA replication is a biological polymerization, which proceeds in the sequence of initiation, elongation, and termination.
  3. DNA replication is an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.
  4. DNA Polymerase is the main enzyme in the replication process.

Three types of DNA replication are:

  1. Conservative DNA replication: It produces two DNA helices, out of which one contains entirely old DNA while the other contains entirely new DNA.
  2. Semiconservative DNA replication: It produces two DNA helices in which each helix contains one new strand and one old strand.
  3. Disruptive DNA replication: It produces two DNA helices in which each strand has alternating segments of old and new DNA.

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