Burning Chemical Questions…

ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Poppy Flanagan and I am an aspiring A-Level student with a passion for biomedical science and a fascination for the workings of the human body at a molecular level. Through this blog I aim to explain complex concepts and explore how new scientific research drives advances in medicine.

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  • Why is DNA a Double Helix?

    Why is DNA a Double Helix?

    I am sure we’re all aware of the famous double helix structure, but how many of us have pondered over actually why DNA’s atoms are arranged like this? To do this, we need to pick apart the contributions to the overall free energy change (a measure of the amount of usable energy in a system1) as you go from the unfolded state (single, separate strands) to the…

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