Nucleus Nucleolus Cytoplasm The control center of the cell and dictates what all of the other organelles do. Stores the DNA in eukaryotes.Dark spherical body found in the nucleus; makes the ribosomes. A jelly-like material that surrounds the cell organelles.ucleus Nucleolus Cytoplasm The control center of the cell and dictates what all of the other organelles do. Stores the DNA in eukaryotes.
The regular structure and data redundancy provided by the DNA double helix make DNA well suited to the storage of genetic information, while base-pairing between DNA and incoming nucleotides provides the mechanism through which DNA polymerase replicates DNA, and RNA polymerase transcribes DNA into RNA.
The specific base pairing provides a way for DNA to make exact copies of itself. Each half of the original DNA still has a base attached to its sugar-phosphate backbone. A new strand of DNA is made by an enzyme called DNA polymerase. It reads the original strand and matches complementary bases to the original strand.