APGAR is an assessment of how a baby is doing right after the mother gives birth. It identifies if the newborn is ready to meet the world without any further medical assistance. It is compose of 5 aspects namely Appearance,pulse,grimace,activity and respiration and being rate each from 0-2 and the sum of all these would indicate if the baby is healthy or not. In this situation, the baby scores 1 for appearance, pulse and respiration. He or she might score 7-5 which means an unhealthy baby and requires immediate attention like further suctioning and oxygen.
DNA replication begins when something called Helicase (an enzyme) unwinds the helix structure of the DNA. It does this so that Primase can then come along and set down an RNA primer.