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A) Plectonemes can undergo short-range diffusive motion along DNA. The hydrodynamic drag on a plectoneme is small – it is sequence preferences that slow down the rate of such excursions.
B) Plectonemes can also display hopping behavior, disappearing from one location and reappearing thousands of basepairs away within tens of milliseconds.
