2020-08-01

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Steve Mould

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Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why?

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Meteorite image - Art Bromage - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murchison_meteorite.jpg

RNA and DNA images - Sponk - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Difference_DNA_RNA-EN.svg

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