chirality
These two amino acids are mirror images of each other but they are otherwise identical, like left and right hand; hence, they are chiral.
Meaning
Noun
- The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness
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Origin
- From chiral + -ity.
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