Years ago, a newspaper headline read quot;Scientists Create Life.quot; Actually, scientists had strung together a chain of nucleotides to make a...

Years ago, a newspaper headline read "Scientists Create Life." Actually, scientists had strung together a chain of nucleotides to make a strand of DNA. This was the first time DNA had been synthesized in a laboratory; it has been synthesized many times since that first headline. Based on what you now know about the characteristics of living things and DNA