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AVELING THE MYS

The human genetic blueprint, or genome, consists of approximately 25,000 genes TER

made up of approximately 3 billion letters (base pairs) of DNA. Base pair sequences: Y

guanine (G) pairs with cytosine (C); adenine (A) pairs with thymine (T).

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