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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe default configuration of DNA in cells, right-hand twisting double helix with a significant size difference between major groove and minor groove, and approximately 10 base pairs per twist. · A DNA helix in such a configuration.
From B + DNA. Coined by Rosalind Franklin, for the second of two forms discovered during her X-ray crystallography experiments on DNA.
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