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Dna structure
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is made up of two strands winding around each other to generate a "double helix". The backbone of each individual strand consists of sugar and phosphate groups. Each sugar is attached to a base: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), or thymine (T).
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