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Bates & Maxwell: DNA Topology
Why is DNA a helix?

Why is DNA a helix?


The following page, constructed by Andy Bates, provides a short tutorial to answer this question. The tutorial explains, with animations and three-dinemnsional structures, that in fact the helix is a general response to the stacking up of single monomer units into a polymer - DNA can't help being a helix.

Click here to view the tutorial.

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