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Because otherwise you'd have half the information in one of the daughter nuclei and the other half in the other daughter nucleus.
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Why is DNA copied in the process of replication?
DNA replication occurs because there need to be two identical copies of DNA before the nucleus of the cell divides, so that each new nucleus has a complete and identical copy of DNA.
What happens to the info before the cell divides?
Your DNA is copied into the new cell every time it divides
Why does genetic information have to be copied in the nucleus?
The nucleus is an important cell part, so if it separates ,it needs to copy information or else the nucleus will become useless.
Where is DNA copied?
DNA is transcribed into mRNA in the nucleus.
What type of cell division occurs in diploid eukaryotic cells?
Somatic cells undergo Mitosis. The nucleus and all its contents have to be replicated (copied) and divided into the daughter cells. The process where the nucleus divides is called karyokinesis
Where in the cell is DNA copied?
The nucleus.
What allows the genetic materials for genes to give instructions and be copied before a cell divides?
The structure of DNA allows two functions to occur
What enables DNA to be copied?
Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated (duplicated.) Because the two strands of a DNA molecule have complementary base pairs, the nucleotide sequence of each strand automatically supplies the information needed to produce its partner.
How does DNA form?
DNA contains information for an organism's growth and function. So first, DNA is stored in cells that have a nucleus. When a cell divides, the DNA code is copied and passed to the new nucleus. In this way, new cells receive the coded information that was in the original cell. Every cell that has ever been formed in your bodies or in any other organism contains DNA.
Where is genetic information stored and copied?
the nucleus stores all the genetic information (DNA)
Why must genes be copied each time a cell divides?
Because when a cell divides it creates something like a mirror image and to do this it needs to copy the most important part of the cell the nucleus (which holds the DNA) and that will determine what the cell needs to do.
DNA has to be able to do three things?
-be able to carry information from one generation to the next -to put information to work by determining the heritable characteristics of organisms -to be easily copied, because all of a cells' genetic information is replicated every times a cell divides.
