the building blocks of dna are?

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anonymous · Answer

adenine, guanine, cytosine, and... I forget the last one

anonymous · Answer

thymine

adrynicoleb · Answer

I just checked my bio notes and they said proteins.  I don't know for sure if its right unless you're doing the same assignment I am doing.

anonymous · Answer

those are actually the amino acids that make up dna, which is actually deoxyribonucleic acid

anonymous · Answer

hey, kayyyyyyy, we need ur help here

adrynicoleb · Answer

lol we are suppose to be helping them.  Your answer sounds good.  My notes said that dna was the building blocks of protein, not the other way around, so you are probably right.

anonymous · Answer

The building blocks of DNA are the nucleic acids, which are called guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine or G, A, T and C for short.

(In double-stranded DNA, a C always links to a G in the other strand and an A to a T.
A and G are called "purines" and are slightly larger than T and C which are called "pyrimidines"; so a purine always links to a pyrimidine.)

((DNA is the recipe to form proteins, a sequence of three nucleic acids (DNA) codes for one amino acid (proteins))