Biology
Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 6U

The molecule DNA is important to biological systems because

a. it can be replicated.

b. it encodes the information for making a new individual.

c. it forms a complex, double-helical structure.

d. nucleotides form genes.

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