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Chemicals, toxins, illegal/legal drugs. do they teach that all of these have a dna sequence? ...learning about dna, protein, antibodies/antigens,ect
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No: The chemicals you mentioned are not DNA. Some toxins are proteins, others are different chemicals. The gene controlling the proteins have a DNA sequence but the proteins and chemicals do not.
Answered 7/9/2014
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