We Need to Understand the Basics of Genes to Understand Nutrition
A gene is made up of only 4 repeating molecules. Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine are called 'bases' and their arrangement in a particular order is what stores the genetic information in DNA. Each 'base' binds only to one other of the foursome which determines the sequence in the opposite strand of the double helix. Cytosine can only pair with guanine and adenine only with thymine and hundreds to thousands of 'base pairs' in various sized genes preserve the instructions in their 'spelling' or sequence for producing enzymes needed to metabolize nutrients.