Many carbon-based molecules have a property called 'chirality'-they can exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The direction is called the chirality (handedness) of the disk. From Wordnik.com. [Channel Register] Reference
This two-handed quality is called chirality, and in a molecule, it can make the difference between healing and harming the human body. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
The monomers exhibit axial chirality, which is recognized by their partner cage during the template-free interlocking assembly process. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Handedness, or "chirality," is when molecules come in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like right - and left-handed gloves. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Astrobiology Magazine] Reference
Outside of chirality, what long quotation have I distorted?. From Wordnik.com. [Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But, chirality makes the problem quite relevant for abiogenesis. From Wordnik.com. [Always finish what you start…] Reference
In gastropod parlance the topology of its coil chirality is dextral. From Wordnik.com. [A shell of a different kind] Reference
One error about chirality in a discussion that is over 20 pages long?. From Wordnik.com. [Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Learn about the basic principles of chirality in the 'chirality Game'. From Wordnik.com. [Further Reading - The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
And will someone explain to me how ID would explain chirality of life?. From Wordnik.com. [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I was thinking earlier this morning about some sort of chirality reversal power. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Aha! I think I’ve invented a superpower.] Reference
So yes, chirality was discussed in its relation to replication, not its original purification. From Wordnik.com. [Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It looks like there was a Photoshop induced chirality reversal on the Great Dane greeting picture. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Steve arrives in New Mexico - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It was cited by Hazen as an article critical of certain chirality scenarios, and I cited it as such. From Wordnik.com. [Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Everyone will be busy looking at phase transition, chirality and other features of the “other side”. From Wordnik.com. [What’s the (Dark) Matter?] Reference
Some forams make shells which are characteristically sinistral, and the chirality has a phylogenetic basis. From Wordnik.com. [A shell of a different kind] Reference
Prelog has also led a very penetrating discussion of the conditions governing chirality in complex molecules. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
There is a lot of work on production of chirality by the effects of UV light, assembly on mineral surfaces etc. From Wordnik.com. [Abiogenesis: How plausible are the current models? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Thus from a substrate that is not chiral, chirality has been transferred from the chiral catalyst to the product. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public] Reference
So in other words when creationists claim that chirality is a problem for science they are unfamiliar with the science?. From Wordnik.com. [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In a totally stochastic process, the number of righties and lefties should average out, making the total chirality zero. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist, Juckes and Rob Wilson « Climate Audit] Reference
Surely not by chirality or even monopole repulsions, but perhaps … too simple, an unexpected magnetic field generation?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery of the Flyby Anomaly Endures | Universe Today] Reference
Creationists have considered the ‘mystery’ of the chirality of life a problem inaccessible to scientific explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: June 2006 Archives] Reference
But in addition, another specification is a “Sorted set of amino-acids where all amino acids posess a left chirality”. From Wordnik.com. [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
This result is interesting, and add a bit to our store of knowledge about prebiotic chemistry and how chirality is produced. From Wordnik.com. [Abiogenesis: How plausible are the current models? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Dextra is a lush world whose life is composed of amino acids of the opposing chirality to our own, making everything inedible. From Wordnik.com. [10 Best Science Fiction Planets] Reference
Under such a situation sequence specificity doesn't matter much, chirality doesn't matter such, all of that could evolve later. From Wordnik.com. [Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?] Reference
Another way to look at it might be, "are there any NON-biological processes that concentrate amino acids of one particular chirality?". From Wordnik.com. [L or D or L+D?] Reference
Forams have been around for over half a billion years, and over geological time some taxa underwent one or more reversal in chirality. From Wordnik.com. [A shell of a different kind] Reference
So if in fact the research turns out to be relevant, and chirality of life has been resolved, will ID accept that it has been falsified?. From Wordnik.com. [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Of course, science as usual takes little notice of claims to ignorance and has provided yet another explanation for the chirality of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: June 2006 Archives] Reference
This could be reliably controlled but not the chirality. From Wordnik.com. [Channel Register] Reference
In fact, you could get an identical biosphere with a different chirality. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
A number of different theories exist for why left chirality was chosen over right. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
The horrors of the thalidomide drug disaster resulted from this problem of chirality. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But you don't say anything about why water makes one chirality of isovaline more common. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Is handedness, chirality etc. of importance or significance in Chinese in other respects?. From Wordnik.com. [Learn Chinese - ChinesePod] Reference
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