Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology (6th Edition)
Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology (6th Edition)
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780134711751
Author: Eric J. Simon, Jean L. Dickey, Jane B. Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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To explain: The reason that the statement “DNA replication relies on enzyme DNA polymerase” suggests that earliest genes were made from RNA.

Introduction: DNA is the genetic material of most of the organisms including many microbes. RNA too serves as the genetic material in some of the organisms mainly viruses. DNA replication is the process in which the genetic material that is DNA divides and duplicates and forms its copies, which is passed on the new cell and thereby there is the transfer of traits takes place from one generation to the other generation.

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