Clean install of Snow Leopard backup Time Machine

I'm swapping computers with my daughter. Both MacBooks, one with installed Yosemite, the other with Snow Leopard.

We have backed up our files to separate external drives. Now, I have two related questions.

1. If I understand correctly, we can now delete all the contents of the MacBook Snow Leopard and do a clean install of Yosemite or El Capitan before (or at the same time that?) from the TM backup data recovery. This hypothesis is correct?

2. the content of the Snow Leopard system should be installed on the MacBook running Yosemite. What's the procedure here? In other words, it is possible erase the drive, and then start the computer into recovery mode is to have only the Time Machine backup?

TIA.

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