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DNA Structure
By Cindy Grigg |
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1 An embryonic cell divides again and again. Where there was one cell there are two, then four, then eight, and so on. Each holds all the genetic information needed to create a new human being. Your fingernails grow nonstop, day in and day out. The cells of your fingernails somehow generate all of the protein that makes up your nails. How is this protein created? How, exactly, do these cells make copies of themselves? The answers to these questions are DNA replication and protein synthesis.