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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

Like they said, it's the angle of the nucleotides that create the major and minor groove.

If I give you a million bent rungs and ask you to make a straight ladder, you're going to have a bad time.

And before you ask why are they all bent - you might need to check out the electron configuration of carbon and its tetrahedral structure. Rarely will large things be linear in nature.

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