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OCR AS-level BiologyBiological MoleculesLesson 50 of 63

DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid. It is made of two long polynucleotide strands held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases.

Each nucleotide is made of a molecule of deoxyribose sugar a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base. The four bases in DNA are adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine (A, G, C and T).

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