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Each Organism's Traits Are Inherited from a Parent through Transmission of DNA

By the mid-nineteenth century, scientists began to realize that traits were inherited due to the passage of some substance from parents to their offspring, but they were not sure what that substance was or where it was located. We now understand that this substance is DNA. Learn how scientists discovered that DNA and its chromosomal forms carry the traits observed through generations of organisms.

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