C & G
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Scientists once thought that the single code governing life was DNA, and that everything was governed by how DNA's four building blocks -- A, C, G and T -- combined and recombined.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 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
Like all DNA, the monkeypox genome contains four “letters”—A, C, G and T—that code for proteins.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2022
They were the ones who — thanks to a few crucial shared spans across three billion pairs of A, C, G and T nucleotides — brought about his arrest.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
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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