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title: "4 Base Pairs Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddhartha-mukherjee/in-1977-when-fred-sanger-had-sequenced-the-genome-of-the-phix-virus/)

[Siddhartha Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddhartha-mukherjee/)

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> [We, our environment, our universe all share a common code base. In living things, this code comprises sequences of base pairs that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-johnson/we-our-environment-our-universe-all-share-a-common-code-base-in/)

[Bryan Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-johnson/)

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> [The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-brenner/the-moment-i-saw-the-model-and-heard-about-the-complementing-base/)

[Sydney Brenner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-brenner/)

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> [Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-the-human-genome-consists-of-about-3-3-billion-base-pairs/)

[Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/)

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