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E. Coli has only 
base pairs and completes the process of replication within 18 minutes; then the average rate of polymerisation is approximately-
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E. coli that has only 
bp completes the process of replication within 18 minutes; that means the average rate of polymerisation has to be approximately 2000 bp per second.
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