DNA replication involves un-winding two strands of parent DNA, copying each strand to synthesize complementary strands, and rele
asing the parent and daughter DNA. Which of the following accurately describes this process?A. This is an anabolic process.B. This is a catabolic process.C. This is both anabolic and catabolic.D. This is a metabolic process but is neither anabolic nor catabolic.
An anabolic process is simply a constructive process in which complex molecules are synthesized from simpler ones.
Thus just as photosynthesis or glycogen synthesis that yields complex molecules, since DNA replication leads to the synthesis of long double-stranded polynucleotides wounded together from a single strand (as in semi-conservative replication); we can therefore conclude that it is a anabolic process.
