Kira Beukeboom Blog #3 May 11th 3/3

review of class:
 - Recap on DNA replication
 -Watched an animation on DNA replication
 - did worksheet on DNA replication

Thoughts and opinion on material:
 I think the DNA replication is very cool. the fact that scientists were able to understand how that all works when it happens on such a tiny level is amazing. I think so far it's difficult to understand some of the material and it will be tough to learn it, but once I get the hang of it it'll get easier. the concepts of messenger and transfer RNA is confusing so far. how fast exactly does DNA replicate itself?

Above and beyond:
The Genome of complex eukaryotes is huge and the process of DNA Replication should be incredibly fast. It is amazing that a Chromosome of 250 million pair of bases can be replicated in several hours. The speed of DNA replication for the humans is about 50 nucleotides per second per replication fork (low speed comparing to the speed of the bacterial DNA Replication).But the human Genome can be copied only in a few hours because because many replication forks take place at the some time (multiple initiation sites).