Cabo San Lucas, Mexico â Residents and tourists hunkered down in shelters and hotel conference rooms overnight as a powerful and sprawling Hurricane Odile made landfall on the southern Baja California peninsula.
DNA replication is one of the most basic processes that occurs within a cell. Each time a cell divides, the two resulting daughter cells must contain exactly the same genetic information, or DNA, as the parent cell. To accomplish this, each strand of existing DNA acts as a template for replication.
5. Cancel. DNA replication occurs in the nucleus of almost every cell in the body, and replication takes place when hair or nails grow. Learn about DNA replication, which creates two identical cells, with information from a biology teacher in this free video on science.