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Homochirality

Homochirality is the dominance of one molecular handedness within a system. Biology is strongly homochiral: proteins mostly use amino acids of one handedness, while DNA and RNA use sugars of the opposite conventional handedness.

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Homochirality

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التجانس الكيرالي

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