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The bases are split into two categories: purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine, cytosine and uracil).
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Devika Rao, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
Scientists have discovered that a sample of the Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil, the building blocks of DNA and RNA upon which all life is based.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
Those rungs are made up of pairs of four different chemical building blocks, called bases — adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine (A,T,C and G).
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
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Devika Rao, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
Scientists have discovered that a sample of the Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil, the building blocks of DNA and RNA upon which all life is based.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
Those rungs are made up of pairs of four different chemical building blocks, called bases — adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine (A,T,C and G).
—F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Thymine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thymine. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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