What is "replicates"

Usage examples of "replicates".

Mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA, which replicates and propagates itself entirely independently of the main DNA in the chromosomes of the nucleus.

A conservative estimate is that, in the absence of natural selection, DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy 1 per cent of the characters.

One variety for example, called V2, replicates much more rapidly than normal Q-beta RNA, probably because it is smaller.

Unfortunately, the same seems to be true of at least parts of the apparatus of cellular machinery whereby DNA replicates itself, and this applies not just to the cells of advanced creatures like ourselves and amoebas, but also to relatively more primitive creatures like bacteria and blue-green algae.

One fiber stabs through her skin, injects her with a nanomite which replicates into her central configuration channels.