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o How do living things pass anything
,,,,---- on to their offspring?
They do this through
REPRODUCTION.
The information is carried as a code, called
DNA. Unless the code is changed, it makes
no difference at all what happens to the
carrier.
For example, imagine a boy with a bottle.
In the bottle is a sheet of paper, and on that
paper 1s a recipe
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for making a cake.
One fine day, the boy
sets off on a journey,
to give the recipe to
someone else.
Tum te tum,
off I go ...
