DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION AND EUKARYOTIC DNA.

  • EUKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION:
  1. Due to the large size of eukaryotes, they posses 25 times more DNA.
  2. Eukaryotic cells have multiple point of origin and they use unidirectional replication within the nucleus of the cell.
  3. Eukaryotic cells have four or more types of polymerase.
  4. Replication of eukaryotic cells is slower taking up to 400 hours.
  5. .Eukaryotes have a distinct process for replicating the telomeres at the ends of their chromosomes.
  6. Eukaryotic cells only undergoes DNA replication during the S-phase of the cell cycle.


                        
  • PROKARYOTES DNA REPLICATION:

  1. Due to its small size, they have very minimal/little DNA.
  2. Prokaryotes cells have a single point of origin and replication takes place in two opposite directions at the  same time and it takes place in the cell cytoplasm.
  3. Prokaryotes cells possess one or two types of polymerases.
  4. Replication in prokaryotes cells is faster, taking up to 40 minutes.
  5. Prokaryotes have circular chromosomal DNA therefore they do not have any ends to synthesize.    
  6. Replication in prokaryotes takes place almost continuously. 

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