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Parental dna strands are used as templates to produce daughter dna strands during the process called

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Answer: During DNA replication, each of the two strands that make up the double helix serves as a template from which new strands are copied. The new strand will be complementary to the parental or “old” strand. Each new double strand consists of one parental strand and one new daughter strand.

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