Researchers at the University of Rochester studies children born with an infection called roseola. The children also have the causative herpesvirus inserted into their chromosomes. At least one percent of each child had the virus in a chromosome of a sampled hair cell. a. How did the children likely become infected? b. What does the transmission of the viral DNA from generation to generation reveal about the structure of DNA and its replication?

genes

dna is hereditary material