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IS DNA THE COIL OF LIFE?
Till date DNA is considered to be the coil of life. It is one of the wonderful bio molecule which has caught the attention of almost all the biologists. After the discovery of its double helix structure which fetched Nobel for its discoverers, it has been the molecule of curiosity for many. It is established that it possesses the information which will be decoded in our cells to produce proteins. It is also true that this molecule is responsible for the transfer of characters from parents to progeny.

But in recent years many of the works in the fields of molecular biology and genetics have raised an important question which is the title of this article. For most of us it seems that the question is invalid but wait a minute before jumping into that conclusion. One of the reasons which has cropped up this question is the fact that till date no one knows what is the function of whole of the DNA. This possibly could have made many to think that DNA is not the fundamental molecule of life.

Many are still in search of the answer for this question. We can hope that this question will be answered in the coming decade or else it will be proved that the question is invalid.