So having a place that the cell knows - where the cell knows how to replicate is important and so plasmids have an origin of replication.

所以得有一个细胞能识别的区域,能使细胞知道,怎样来复制 这很重要,因此质粒上带有一个复制起点

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It brings up many questions, such as if the final place of assembly counts as the country of origin, or if a certain percent of the raw materials are made overseas, for instance.

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Unlike newspapers though, which are of unknown origin, each track in Undersound will have a birth-place, giving added meaning.

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The search origin may be defined in terms of location information such as a place name or a postal code.

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