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Point your right thumb along the purple DNA helix at the top of the article (either direction). Your right fingers curl in the direction the helix turns, so the purple helix is right-handed.

Now do the same with your left hand and the orange DNA helices. When your left thumb points along the helix, your left fingers curl in the direction the helix turns, so the orange helices are left-handed.




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