ABSTRACT

DNA is composed of several dierent chemical units: a deoxyribose sugar unit, phosphate group, and one of four dierent nucleotide bases (adenine [A], guanine [G], cytosine [C], or thymine [T]). At the molecular level, it is the order of these bases that carries the code to build proteins within the cell

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