Today we finished chapter 4.
We focused on the importance of supercoiling DNA so it fits in a cell (prokaryotes) or in a nucleus of a cell (eukaryotes). We discussed the mechanisms through which prokaryotic DNA is supercoiled and how eukaryotic DNA is packed in chromosomes as chromatin (in this case the term 'supercoiling' is not really applicable, but it is a useful analogy).
Then we started chapter 5, on DNA replication and we did a quick introduction to the replication fork and the elements involved: DNA and the replisome (all the enzymes involved in the DNA replication process)
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