Chapter 12, Problem 15TYU

Summary Introduction

To explain: The characteristics that a molecule must have to function as a genetic material and the important features of the structure of DNA that are consistent with its role as the chemical basis of heredity.

Introduction: DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid carries hereditary information from one generation to another. DNA replication is a process that takes place in every biological cell. It involves coping and producing of two identical copies of a cell from their parent DNA molecule.