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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 consist two parallel strands made up of nucleotides. DNA replication is a process by which a DNA molecule replicated or multiplied in numbers.

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