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DNA

The molecule that carries hereditary information. Comparing DNA samples is used in medicine and forensics.

Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions, Gerd Gigerenzer

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• Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions, Gerd Gigerenzer
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan

  The molecule that carries the hereditary information of living things.

• The Double Helix, James D. Watson

  The molecule that carries the heredity of living things. Watson and Crick worked out its structure, the double helix, in 1953.

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking

  A molecule in every cell that holds hereditary information: the “instructions” a body is built from, passed on to its offspring.

• Cosmos, Carl Sagan

  The molecule in the cells of living things that carries hereditary information.

• The Genesis Machine, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel

  The molecule inside every cell that uses four “letters” to write down the instructions for how an organism is built and how it works.

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