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What are thymine and cytosine?

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Thymine and cytosine are two nitrogen bases found in DNA. DNA is composed of thousands of nucleotides which are composed of one of four nitrogen bases. Both of these nitrogen bases are also pyrimidines, or they have one ring like structure
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