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== Read-Only Memory ==

DNA is read-only memory, archived safely inside cells. Genetic information is stored in an orderly manner in strands of DNA. DNA is composed of a long linear strand of millions of nucleotides, and is most often found paired with a partner strand, which wrap around one another in the familiar double helix~~, as shown here~~. The code is quite easy to read: you simply step down the strand of DNA one nucleotide at a time and read off the bases: A, T, C or G. This is exactly what your cells do: they scan down a messenger RNA (copied from the DNA), and use ribosomes to build proteins based on the code that is read. This is also how researchers determine the sequence of a DNA strand: they clip off one nucleotide at a time to see what it is.

DNA is read-only memory, archived safely inside cells. Genetic information is stored in an orderly manner in strands of DNA. DNA is composed of a long linear strand of millions of nucleotides, and is most often found paired with a partner strand, which wrap around one another in the familiar double helix. The code is quite easy to read: you simply step down the strand of DNA one nucleotide at a time and read off the bases: A, T, C or G. This is exactly what your cells do: they scan down a messenger RNA (copied from the DNA), and use ribosomes to build proteins based on the code that is read. This is also how researchers determine the sequence of a DNA strand: they clip off one nucleotide at a time to see what it is.

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 == Read-Only Memory ==
-DNA is read-only memory, archived safely inside cells. Genetic information is stored in an orderly manner in strands of DNA. DNA is composed of a long linear strand of millions of nucleotides, and is most often found paired with a partner strand, which wrap around one another in the familiar double helix, as shown here. The code is quite easy to read: you simply step down the strand of DNA one nucleotide at a time and read off the bases: A, T, C or G. This is exactly what your cells do: they scan down a messenger RNA (copied from the DNA), and use ribosomes to build proteins based on the code that is read. This is also how researchers determine the sequence of a DNA strand: they clip off one nucleotide at a time to see what it is.
+DNA is read-only memory, archived safely inside cells. Genetic information is stored in an orderly manner in strands of DNA. DNA is composed of a long linear strand of millions of nucleotides, and is most often found paired with a partner strand, which wrap around one another in the familiar double helix. The code is quite easy to read: you simply step down the strand of DNA one nucleotide at a time and read off the bases: A, T, C or G. This is exactly what your cells do: they scan down a messenger RNA (copied from the DNA), and use ribosomes to build proteins based on the code that is read. This is also how researchers determine the sequence of a DNA strand: they clip off one nucleotide at a time to see what it is.
 == Your Inheritance ==