Question

Which parts of the cell carry out the following activities.

(i) Transmission of hereditary characters from parents to offspring.

(ii) Site for protein synthesis.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. chromosomes (DNA).
2. mitochondria

please mark as BRAINLIEST

Answer 2

Explanation:

The part of the cell responsible for the transmission of hereditary characteristics is one of the most famous molecules ever described.

Called DNA , it is the structure discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953, the double-helix, ladder structure known in full as deoxyribonucleic acid.

This was the smoking gun that finally provided the mechanism for heredity that Darwin was sure existed but was unknown in his time.

Its groundbreaking discovery gave rise to the modern field of molecular biology as we know it. In typical English style, the pair of biologists burst into one of their favourite drinking establishments, The Eagle pub in Cambridgeshire, to announce excitedly that they had discovered “