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Antiparallel (biochemistry)
In
biochemistry
, two
biopolymers
are
antiparallel
if they run
parallel
to each other but with opposite
alignment
s. An example is the two
complementary
strands of a
DNA
double helix
, which run in opposite directions alongside each other.
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