I hold the secrets of heredity, coded in a language of nucleotides, and I’m often depicted as a twisted ladder. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: I carry the blueprints of life.
Answer
DNA structure
Explanation
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) contains the genetic instructions for the development of living organisms.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is DNA structure.
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