DNA Topology image 1 WITHOUT scale bar (IMAGE)

University of Sheffield

DNA Topology image 1 WITHOUT scale bar

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Image 1 shows what looks like two pieces of interlinked rope. The orange “ropes” are in fact circles, each one a double helix of DNA. Each time the two circles of DNA cross each other, one either goes over or under the other. 

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University of Sheffield in Nature Communications

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