helix
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Each double helix contains vast arrays of chemical subunits that function like the zeroes and ones in a computer program.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
One of the most dangerous forms of damage is a double-strand break, which happens when both strands of the DNA helix are cut at the same time.
From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025
Franklin, whose expert X-ray images solidified Watson’s conviction that DNA was a double helix, had died four years earlier of ovarian cancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
The way to reveal a helix was to tilt the oriented TMV sample at several angles to the X-ray beam.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing helix
"Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone, Chapters 28–37
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