Misreplicate

During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy.

Thus when the second master unit begins to misreplicate, then in cells that still possess both units, the rate of misreplication becomes the same for both master units, even though they were initially lost at different rates.

Transcription errors cause a tector to misreplicate into a form symbiotic with living cells.

It is important to realize that errors in protein synthesis may also result in altered DNA polymerase, which would misreplicate DNA, thereby injecting errors into the genome that would lead to clones of abnormal cells (Orgel, 1973).