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Why is rna, rather than dna, thought to have been the first genetic material?

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Rna has great capability as a genetic molecule. It once had to carry on hereditary preocesses by its self. Now it seems positive that rna was the first molecule of hereditary, so it evolved all the essential methods for storing genetic information before dna
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