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What does nucleic acid do?

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stores the information that controls cell activity and specialization of cells to tissues to organs to do life processes through coding for proteins and enzymes.

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define chromosomes

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thread-like structures of DNA strands wound are protein histones.

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define chromatin

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all the chromosomal material made up from dna rna and proteins

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define genes

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sections of DNA that contain heredity code

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general history of DNA?

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rosalind franklin took the first image and gave to Wilkons. Watson and crick determined structure and won nobel prize

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