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@@ -1,31 +1,17 @@ # Nucleotide Count -Given a DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string. +Given a single stranded DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string. -DNA is represented by an alphabet of the following symbols: 'A', 'C', -'G', and 'T'. +The genetic language of every living thing on the planet is DNA. +DNA is a large molecule that is built from an extremely long sequence of individual elements called nucleotides. +4 types exist in DNA and these differ only slightly and can be represented as the following symbols: 'A' for adenine, 'C' for cytosine, 'G' for guanine, and 'T' thymine. -Each symbol represents a nucleotide, which is a fancy name for the -particular molecules that happen to make up a large part of DNA. - -Shortest intro to biochemistry EVAR: - +Here is an analogy: - twigs are to birds nests as -- nucleotides are to DNA and RNA as -- amino acids are to proteins as -- sugar is to starch as -- oh crap lipids - -I'm not going to talk about lipids because they're crazy complex. - -So back to nucleotides. - -DNA contains four types of them: adenine (`A`), cytosine (`C`), guanine -(`G`), and thymine (`T`). - -RNA contains a slightly different set of nucleotides, but we don't care -about that for now. +- nucleotides are to DNA as +- legos are to lego houses as +- words are to sentences as... ## Running tests In order to run the tests, issue the following command from the exercise directory: