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Phosphate and sugar make up the sides of a DNA ladder.
The twisted ladder metaphorA DNA molecule is often likened to a spiral (or twisted) ladder. In this analogy, the rungs of the ladder are the base pairs (A-T and G-C). The sides of the ladder are the sugar-phosphate backbones of the two strands. This refers to B form DNA. molecule of DNA is double-stranded. The molecule has the shape of a double helix, typically right handed (B form DNA).