I am a sequence, yet I write the story of life. My letters are A, T, C, and G, but I am not a book. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about what carries hereditary information.
Answer
DNA
Explanation
DNA is the molecule that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living things.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is DNA.
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