Definition of Double helix
1. Noun. A pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis. "The shape of the DNA molecule is a double helix"
Definition of Double helix
1. Noun. A metonym for DNA. ¹
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Medical Definition of Double helix
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Literary usage of Double helix
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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The diameter of double-helix DNA determined by electron microscopy of shadow-
... The five-gene tryptophan operon in E. coll il ~ 2.3 дт of double-helix DNA ..."
2. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"Capsule deep brown ; seeds brown ; spiral filaments in a double helix. Anthers single
or in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves. ..."
3. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by R. Dougherty, Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"As shown in Figure 1.3, along the two strands of the DNA double helix, a pyrimidine
in one chain always faces a purine in the other, and only the base pairs ..."
4. Elements of Mechanism by Peter Schwamb, Allyne Litchfield Merrill, Walter Herman James (1921)
"181, the result would be called a double helix; three lines would give a triple
helix, and so on. If the helix slopes as in Fig. FIG. ..."
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