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heredity
Deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid are two chemical substances
involved
in transmitting genetic information from parent to offspring. It was
known early into the
20th century that chromosomes, the genetic material of cells, contained
DNA. In 1944,
Oswald T. Avery, Colin M. MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty concluded that DNA
was the
basic genetic component of chromosomes. Later, RNA would be proven to
regulate
protein synthesis. (Miller, 139)
DNA is the genetic material found in most viruses and
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