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Old Posted Jul 26, 2009, 8:22 PM
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Originally Posted by WildCowboy View Post
Yes, it's part of the human genome.
In case you don't know (probably you do--they probably teach this in kindergarten now ):

A = Adenine
G = Guanine
T = Thymine
C = Cytosine

This shows how the bases pair (the image is RNA so it has uracil rather than thymine):


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase

But nucleic acid strands (one side of the double-stranded helix) are commonly shown as the sequence of bases: AGCAC etc
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