The bacterial cell cycle. In well-characterized bacterial species, such as E. coli, B. subtilis and C. crescentus, the DnaA-mediated recruitment of replisomes to a highly conserved oriC site ...

The cells must therefore continue to synthesise the antitoxin in order to avoid poisoning by the toxin. If a cell loses the mobile genetic element with the toxin/antitoxin system, the production of ...

Learn about the ultrastructure and organelles of animal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells. BBC Bitesize Scotland revision for SQA National 5 Biology.

However, in bacterial single-cell DNA amplification, particularly of whole genomes, the amount of DNA available for copying is very limited, and the amplification process can introduce biases that ...