Although DNA is an excellent medium for the storage of information, the very characteristic that makes it so stable and inherently self-correcting - being double-stranded - also makes it unwieldy for ...Although DNA is an excellent medium for the storage of information, the very characteristic that makes it so stable and inherently self-correcting - being double-stranded - also makes it unwieldy for using that genetic information to make cell components. Since the informational parts of the molecule (the nitrogenous bases) are locked inside the ladder, reading it requires the energetically expensive task of breaking all the hydrogen bonds holding the two strands together.
