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/ˌeɪ-siː-tiː-dʒiː/ noun

Definition

An acronym for the four nucleotide bases in DNA: adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine, which form the building blocks of genetic code.

Etymology

Each letter represents the first letter of a nucleotide base discovered during early molecular biology research in the early-to-mid 20th century; the acronym became standard shorthand in genetics.

Kelly Says

Those four letters—A, C, T, G—are literally the alphabet of life itself; every organism that ever existed is written in just these four characters, making it the most powerful and economical code system in the universe!

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