It's important so that they know exactly where the disease started. Knowing who patient zero is helps them to identify who that person interacted with. From there, they can determine where the disease spread to. This will aid them in stopping the disease before it spreads any further.
In semiconservative DNA replication, each new double helix that will form will have 1 polynucleotide strand that is from the old DNA molecule and is an Old or Parent strand, and will have a polynucleotide strand from the newly synthesized one, the new DNA strand.
Do you have any choice answers? As far as I know, the organisms that appeared first was micro-organisms. Hope this helps.