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carbon, carbon, carbon, phosphate
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and it has this structure hanging off the side.
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Now DNA is a double helix
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and I've only shown you one part of the helix,
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right? I've shown you one
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upright strut and a base hanging off of it,
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but it forms a double helix
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because complementary strands of DNA strongly
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associate with one another
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and that's a very stable structure.
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They do that
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because the bases can