Z is for…

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…2-aminoadenine, and if you happen to be a bacteriophage it’s quite important.

Very important, in fact. And it might be important to our understanding of, well, how life even works.

DNA Bases

Most life on Earth has DNA (the exception is some viruses, which use RNA instead. SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus.).