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Molecular Basis of Inheritance — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Bihar BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYMolecular Basis of Inheritance3 Marks
Question
It is established that RNA is the first genetic material. Explain giving three reasons.
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Answer

Processes like metabolism, translation, splicing evolved around RNA, RNA is reactive and catalyses reaction. In some virus it is the hereditary material. It is so unstable and hence would have mutated to lead to evolution.

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