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Learn about Nitrogen Bases

What is a nitrogen base?

What are types of nitrogen bases?
adenine (1)
thymine
guanine
cytosine

What do nitrogen bases do?
The order, or sequence, of nitrogen bases deterines what biological instructions are contained in a strand of DNA. (1)

Resources
1. https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Deoxyribonucleic-Acid-Fact-Sheet

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