How to pronounce “quaternary” in English

So Virginia Steen-McIntyre and her colleagues were a little surprised by that.So they decided to independently publish the age for the site in a journal called "Quaternary Research."But when they did that, they experienced an extreme negative backlash from their colleagues in the scientific world because they

It is A, T, C, G, four bases.This would be, instead of a binary, a quaternary mode of transferring information throughout our life between cells and across the last 4.6 billion--well, at least 4 billion years since we first emerged out of the primordium.