Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
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Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why?
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Видео Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules канала Steve Mould
Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why?
Credits:
Meteorite image - Art Bromage - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murchison_meteorite.jpg
RNA and DNA images - Sponk - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Difference_DNA_RNA-EN.svg
Viking lander video - MASA
You can buy my books here:
https://stevemould.com/books
You can support me on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/stevemould
just like these amazing people:
Joseph Galliera
Nathan Williams
Matthew Cocke
Glenn Watson
Mark Brouwer
Joseph Rocca
Joël van der Loo
Doug Peterson
Yuh Saito
Rashid Al M
Andrew Reeder
Twitter: http://twitter.com/moulds
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemouldscience/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemouldscience/
Buy nerdy maths things: http://mathsgear.co.uk
Видео Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules канала Steve Mould
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