What are the sides of the DNA ladder made of?

What are the sides of the DNA ladder made of?

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    The sides you refer to are called sugar-phophate backbones. This is because they are made up of the pentose sugar (5 carbon sugar) deoxyribose and phopshate groups. These bond together due to condensation reactions between the dexoyribose sugars and phosphate groups.

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Deoxyribose phosphate.

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