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Give an example that illustrates the importance of chirality in a named biological molecule.​

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Chirality is a particularly important concept in biology, because cells are mostly composed of chiral molecules. Small chiral molecules such as amino acids and sugars (figure 1, top) are the building blocks of larger molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, which are also chiral

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