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Phosphate and sugar make up the sides of a DNA ladder.
The double helix resembles a ladder, with two parallel sides and pairs of bases that match up and form the rungs. These ârungsâ are called nucleotides, and are made up of a sugar (in the case of DNA, that sugar is dexoyribose), one phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.