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Standard XII
Biology
Denaturation of a Protein
The number of...
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The number of chiral centres in penicillin is ________.
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A chiral centre is an atom that has four different groups bonded to it in such a manner that it has a non superimposable mirror image.
No. of chiral centres =3
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