Hurricane Odile was the most powerful storm to hit Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. A Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall, Odile had winds of 125 mph. But the hurricane is losing strength as it moves north.
The cell cycle or cell-division cycle is the series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication of its DNA (DNA replication) to produce two daughter cells. In bacteria, which lack a cell nucleus, the cell cycle is divided into the B, C, and D periods. The B period extends from the end of cell division to the beginning of DNA replication. DNA replication occurs during the C period.
Before a cell divides it has to replicate its DNA so that the daughter cell receives a copy of the genome. The DNA helix consists of two complementary DNA strands. Therefore, each of the two strands serves as a template for the construction of the other strand. Under normal conditions the DNA is packed into a compact structure called chromatin. To be able to replicate, the cell has to unfold and unwind the DNA, and also has to separate the two strands from each other. The cell has a complex machinery to perform these tasks. When it is time to replicate, special initiator proteins attach to the DNA at regions called replication origins. These regions are characterised by a weak bond between the two DNA strands. There are around 10,000 replication origins on the DNA in a cell; this arrangement increases the rate of replication tremendously.