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Guanine
One of the four bases in DNA that make up the letters ATGC. Guanine is the 'G'. The others are adenine, cytosine, and thymine. Guanine always pairs with cytosine to form the base pair G-C (guanine-cytosine) in the DNA. The other base pair…
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