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Can biology's chiral preference be explained?

Category: Chemistry

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Life uses L-amino acids and D-sugars almost exclusively. Whether this homochirality arose by chance fixation early in evolution, or by some inherent physical bias (parity violation in weak interactions has been proposed) is unresolved.

Experiments looking for parity-related differences in chemical reactivity have so far set tight upper bounds.

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