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How is a strand of DNA like a sentence?

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DNA molecules are composed of four nucleotides, and these nucleotides are linked together much like the words in a sentence. Together, all of the DNA "sentences" within a cell contain the instructions for building the proteins and other molecules that the cell needs to carry out its daily work.

Step-by-step explanation:

A strand of DNA is much like an extremely long sentence that uses only four letters. DNA actually has two strands, much like a zipper and the nucleotides are like the teeth of that zipper. This two-strand system is the key to how DNA is able to make copies of itself.

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