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To fulfill its role, the genetic material must meet several
criteria
• Information: It must contain the information necessary to
make
an entire organism
• Transmission: It must be passed from parent
to offspring
• Replication: It must be copied in order to be
passed from
parent to offspring
• Variation: It must be
capable of changes to account for
the known phenotypic variation
in each species
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