Sunday, June 04, 2006

Amino acid preference evolution

A clue into the miystery of why nature has selected Left-handed (L) amino acids over their right-handed, mirror image cousins (D): The D-amino acids dissolve more in water, making the L-amino acids available in higher proportions in an aqueous solution, which is just another fancy term for water qith some other gunk in it...

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