1. The Life Cycle of a Filamentous Phage

2. The Genome of a Filamentous Phage

3. The Intergenic Region with the + and – Strand Origins

4. Filamentous Phage DNA Replication

5. Assembly of the Filamentous Phage at the Bacterial Cell Surface

6. Distinction between Ff and ϕX 174 Pages

7. Plasmid Replication – the ColE1 Replicon

8. The ColE1 Origin of Replication and the Structure of the RNA Primers

9. The Interaction of the RNA I and RNA II Primers

11. The Requirement for Topoisomerases

12. The Action of Gyrase ( aTopoisomerase II)

13. Properties of Type I and Type II Topoisomerases

14. The Origins of Replication of Enteric Bacterial Chromosomes

15. Initiation of DNA Replication at the E.Coli Origin

16. DNA Replication Fork in E.coli