How to Use double helix in a Sentence
double helix
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Steckl said the magic stems from the double helix shape of salmon DNA.
—Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2021
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The basic unit of DNA is the base pair, one of the rungs on the twisted ladder that makes up the double helix.
—Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
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About 99% of the 6 billion steps in the spiral staircase of DNA’s double helix are the same for all of us.
—Robert Plomin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
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First, the process would heat the DNA to break its double helix structure into two strands.
—Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022
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The year before that, a double helix wound its way upwards.
—Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
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In a country where the cultural DNA is more ski track than double helix, this is just how it’s done.
—Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2017
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The famous double helix of a DNA strand twists right, along with the sugars that comprise its backbone; the amino acids in proteins twist left.
—Luba Ostashevsky, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
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Kahn implemented a double helix design that allowed cars to go down and up on the same ramp at the same time.
—Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
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To form the i-motif, the double helix untwists and then one of the strands bunches up with a bunch of cytosine molecules.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
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One of the most familiar shapes in science is DNA’s double helix structure.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
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With strong suction and a double helix brush roll, the stick vacuum is designed to keep hard floors and carpets spotless.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
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Each copy of the genome — almost every cell has its own copy — consists of about 3 billion base pairs lined up in the famous double helix structure.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
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Many will dance, embodying that double helix of the sacred yet campy that Mormons have mastered.
—Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
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The year before that, there was a floral double helix, an decorative ode to that year’s theme, Manus x Machina.
—Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
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But right now, most of the world doesn’t have regulations about what scientists — and someday, hobbyists — can and can’t do to the double helix.
—Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2015
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Each one is a single strand of the famous double helix that folds into a U-shape, designed to interlock with four neighbours.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2012
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The end result is a permanent edit that replaces the original DNA sequence on both sides of the double helix.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2019
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Its approach involved taking single strands of the double helix and stuffing them through a protein pore.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
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The base pairing that holds the double helix together always involves pairing a one-ringed base with a two-ringed base, which maintains a constant width of the helix.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2019
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Watson, a dining table made from carbon fiber and thin layers of wood, has legs that form double helixes.
—Tim McKeough, ELLE Decor, 16 May 2011
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Revive Music produces concerts that engage a double helix of jazz and hip-hop.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
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The massive food hall is always busy with diners enjoying a constant display of dazzling LED lights on the grand double helix staircase in the middle of the space.
—Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
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The advent of computers was still almost three decades away, and the DNA double helix was only just being discovered.
—Korin Miller, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
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This model has the benefit of a spinning double helix of water streams that’s certain to douse your opponent.
—Zachary MacK, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
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Still another has twisting twin strands erupting from her dress like a giant DNA double helix.
—Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 10 Oct. 2017
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This is one sick twist of a tryst, with the two forming a strange — and ultimately tiresome — double helix of sadomasochistic desire and overweening ego.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
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There is a lot of repetition, beginning with the two strands of nucleotides that zip together to form DNA’s double helix.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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Nearby, gleeful screams emanated from a ride shaped like a double helix, and a child reached into a shoulder holster of baby-pink cotton candy for a bite of fluff.
—Ella Quittner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
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British scientists discovered the DNA double helix and were part of the international team that first sequenced the human genome.
—Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2021
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In a person’s cells, space radiation can sever both strands of a DNA molecule’s double helix.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 14 July 2021
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