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Both purines and pyrimidines are nitrogen bases yet they differ. How?

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Both purines and pyrimidines are nitrogen bases. The purine bases Adenine and Guanine have double carbon - nitrogen ring, whereas cytosine and thymine bases have single carbon nitrogen ring.
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