C & G
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In living systems, genes act as a biological version of binary code, using the letters A, C, G, and T instead of ones and zeroes to spell out cellular marching orders.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
He assigns a distinct note to each of the four bases of the DNA molecule — A, C, G, and T.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
The four bases of RNA form a kind of language with just four letters: A, C, G, and U. We call this language the genetic code.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
The goal was to harvest the building blocks of the future for a biology that has been converted from the bases A, C, G and T into 1's and 0's—a digitized biology.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2011
By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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