Name the nitrogen bases that pair up to make the rungs of the DNA ladder.

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Name the nitrogen bases that pair up to make the rungs of the DNA ladder.

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Two of the bases are purines- adenine and guanine. The pyrimidines are thymine and cytosine.

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