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Phosphate and sugar make up the sides of a DNA ladder.
Next off, the rungs are made of bases. The bases are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine. The sides are made up of a sugar molecule and a phosphate. Together the base, sugar, and phosphates make up a nucleotide, which is the subunit of DNA. DNA is made up of two complimentary chains of nucleic acids. Each of these complimentary strains has two ends, a 5' end and a 3' end.