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When one of our chromosomes undergoes replication, the very long double helix within the chromosome DNA must also _____1_____. To do that the DNA double helix must be unwound using a dedicated enzyme known as a ____2_____. The individual parental DNA strands serve as ____3_____ for new DNA synthesis to generate new ____4____ daughter DNA strands. Because each parental double helix generates two daughter double helixes that contain one parental strand plus one newly synthesized DNA strand, DNA replication is said to be _____5______.