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Biology
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ISBN: 9780134813448
Author: Audesirk, Teresa, Gerald, Byers, Bruce E.
Publisher: Pearson,
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a genetic material which is responsible for passing information from one generation to other. It is a double helical structure that consists of two parallel strands made up of nucleotides.

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