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1. Considering the structure and function of DNA,
a. What is your evidence that DNA stores genetic information?

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b. What is your evidence that DNA replicates prior to cell division?

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c. What part of DNA mutates and what evidence in nature shows that DNA mutates?

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2. Considering the functions of RNA:
a. If you supplied an actively metabolizing cell with radioactive uridine, where would you first and then later expect to find the label?

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b. What evidence do you have that mRNA and not rRNA directs the synthesis of a polypeptide?

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c. What physical evidence can you present that ribosomes (rRNA) move along the mRNA?

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