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I will praise You , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made ; Marvellous are Your works , And that my soul knows very well . Psalm 139:14
The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases : adenine ( A ), guanine ( G ), cytosine ( C ), and thymine ( T ). Human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases and more than 99 percent of those bases are the same in all people . The order , or sequence , of these bases determines the information available for building and maintaining an organism , similar to the way in which letters of the alphabet appear in a certain order to form words and sentences .
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DNA bases pair up with each other , A with T and C with G , to form units called base pairs . Each base is also attached to a sugar molecule and a phosphate molecule . Together , a base , sugar , and phosphate are called a nucleotide . Nucleotides are arranged in two long strands that form a spiral called a double helix . The structure of the double helix is somewhat like a ladder , with the base pairs forming the ladder ’ s
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