What: "All the plasmids in a cell are bunched up, and like chromosomes this cluster duplicates during S phase. The clusters then appear to sidle up to a chromosome and go their separate ways as the sister chromatids part and the cell divides. In this way, the plasmid is "like a micro-chromosome or even a chromosome appendage,"

Writer: Makkuni Jayaram

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Date: May 13 2013 5:42 PM