Friday, July 16, 2010

Monday biochemistry question:
Cindee Evenson

The biochemistry of the enantiomers is different because the are chiral, meaning they have right or left handedness with two different nonsuperimposable mirror image forms. One hand does not match the other when superimposed. Amino acids and carbohydrates are both chiral. The body only recognizes right handedness.

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