What is required for replication to initiate in DNA?

What is required for replication to initiate in DNA?
  1. DNA ligase
  2. DNA-dependent DNA polymerases
  3. origin of replication
  4. none of the above

Solution

The DNA polymerases on their own cannot initiate the process of replication, and it does not initiate randomly at any place in DNA. There is a definite region in DNA, called the origin of replication, where replication originates.

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