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A new method for the determination in the HUckel approximation of the band structure of a periodic native DNA has been devised. First the method is described, its applicability for DNA is analyzed, after which the band structures of two periodic DNA models and of eight different DNA macromolecules are determined. The results show that realistic computations can be performed only if in addition to the nearest-neighbor frequencies of the bases within the single DNA helices, also the frequencies of all the 16 possible combinations of superimposed base pairs are known. Failing such experimental data, the computations on native DNA of different compositions will lead to oversimplified band structures.