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DNA is more suitable genetic material over RNA. Why?

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Because DNA is chemically less reactive and structurally more stable than RNA
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  2. Name the enzyme and state its property that is responsible for continu...

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  3. DNA is more suitable genetic material over RNA. Why?

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  5. Differentiate between leading strand and lagging strand.

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  6. Define Okazaki fragments.

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  7. List two characteristics of genetic code.

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  9. Read carefully sequence of codons in the mRNA unit and answer the ques...

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  10. List two essential roles of ribosome during translation.

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  11. Differentiate between template strand and coding strand.

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  12. Decribe the structure of a nucleosome.

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  17. What is genetic code? Give its two characteristics.

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  18. Give three differences between DNA and RNA.

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  19. Draw a neat diagrammatic structure of a molecular model of DNA propose...

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  20. A double stranded DNA molecule has 20% of cytosine. Using Chargaff's l...

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