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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA configuration of DNA in cells, right-hand twisting double helix with a small size difference between major groove and minor groove, wider and more squashed twist than B-DNA; found during transcription and replication. · A DNA helix in such a configuration.
From A + DNA. Coined by Rosalind Franklin, for the first of two forms discovered during her X-ray crystallography experiments on DNA.
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