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Amino Acids and their types

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Double stranded meaning in biology

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DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid consists of two chains (strands) of polynucleotides wound around each other in a helical fashion.
Nucleic acid, RNA, consists of only a single chain and is thus single stranded.

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