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From: werner@aecom.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human asymmetry
Message-ID: <1008@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 22:18:29 EST
Article-I.D.: aecom.1008
Posted: Fri Apr  3 22:18:29 1987
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References: <586@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1003@aecom.UUCP>
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Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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Summary: Typo

In article <1003@aecom.UUCP>, werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
> Everything biological is assymetrical.  Why do we metabolize only
> D-sugars, not L-sugars, or use only D-amino acids, and not their L
> enantiomers?  

	Oops, kind of got carried away: D-sugars is correct, but it's
L-amino acids.
	Proving the rule, biology is more assymetrical than the
included sentence.

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			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
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