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Phosphate and sugar make up the sides of a DNA ladder.
The nucleotides of DNA line up so that the sugar and phosphate molecules make two long backbones like the handrails of a ladder. To make the rungs of the ladder, two bases join together, between the sugar molecules on the two handrails. The phosphate molecules do not have any rungs between them. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THE BASES CAN PAIR UP ON THE RUNGS OF THE DNA LADDER. An adenine molecule only pairs with a thymine. A cytosine only pairs with a guanine.