helix
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- n a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- n a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- n type genus of the family Helicidae
- And that structure a "double helix" that can "unzip" to make copies of itself confirmed suspicions that DNA carries life's hereditary information.
- In an amazing half-century we've moved from discovering the double helix to nearly decoding the instruction set for human life.
- So while their double-helix model seemed to make biochemical sense and agreed with what was already known, a wiser man might have toned down his rhetoric.