Mastication is the process by which food is crushed and ground by teeth. It increases the surface area of foods to allow a more efficient break down by enzymes.
The "rungs" of the DNA strand are made up of nitrogenous bases.
1st,2nd,3rd
-Phospholipids
-proteins
-carbohydrates
For purposes of making a prediction, the underlying reason for a correlation does not matter. As long as the correlation is stable–lasting into the future–one can use it to make predictions. What a correlation does not tell you is why two things tend to go together.