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Genes, DNA, and Cells
Genes, DNA, and Cells
Genes, DNA, and Cells
Introduction
• the genetic material must have informational content, since it must encode the
• the structure of DNA must be relatively stable so that organisms can rely on its
encoded information, and it must also allow the coded information to change
on rare occasion
Genes
• The functional and physical unit of heredity passed from parent
to offspring.
• Proteins and RNA influence how an organism looks, how well its
behaves.