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Why is DNA able to store large amounts of information?

a. it contains a large number of different nucleotides
b. its nucleotides can be ararnged in a large number of possible sequences
c. it is capable of assuming a wide variety of shapes
d. the sugar and phosphates can be arranged in many different sequences
e. the nucleotides can be altered to form many different letters in the sequence

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