Questions tagged [chirality]
It concerns a type of molecule that has a non-superposable mirror image.
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Why are amino acids in biology homochiral?
Why are nearly all amino acids in organisms left-handed (exception is glycine which has no isomer) when abiotic samples typical have an even mix of left- and right-handed molecules?
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