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What molecules make up the sides of a DNA molecule?
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What molecules make up the sides of a DNA molecule?

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Answer:It has an alternating chemical phosphate and sugar backbone, making the 'sides' of the ladder. (Deoxyribose is the name of the sugar found in the backbone of DNA.) In between the two sides of this sugar-phosphate backbone are four nitrogenous bases: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G).

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DNA is made up of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
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