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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).
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F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Biology’s four bases—adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G)—encode the instructions that keep life alive.
—Andrew Whalen, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are arranged into sequences — words, paragraphs, chapters, perhaps — in every organism, from bacteria to humans.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
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F.d. Flam, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Biology’s four bases—adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G)—encode the instructions that keep life alive.
—Andrew Whalen, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are arranged into sequences — words, paragraphs, chapters, perhaps — in every organism, from bacteria to humans.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Thymine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thymine. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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