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Phosphate and sugar make up the sides of a DNA ladder.
The structure of a DNA strand resembles a right-handed double helix. This compact helical arrangement allows more genetic information to be stored within a single strand of DNA. The purpose of the sides of the ladder, the sugar-phosphate chain, is to keep the genetic code in its proper order.