Cells contain hereditary information that is carried forward as a genetic code during cell division.

The genes in cells carry the hereditary information that is received from a person's parents.

But biologists had made almost no progress since then in understanding how DNA might store hereditary information and few were actively working on the problem.

Now, however, it is possible to identify specific gene components that contain the relevant hereditary information.

DNA, for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule that carries the hereditary information of living cells.

The genes in cells carry hereditary information from parent to child.

This means restoring the ancestors using the hereditary information that they passed on to their children.

The language of life, our hereditary information, is determined by the sequence of the four different sorts of nucleotides.

This is the principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never in reverse.

In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information.