Biology as Poetry: Chemistry

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Conformation

Shape, stature, or, chemically, the spatial arrangement of atoms.

Often in biology the word conformation is used to describe the spatial arrangement of the atoms making up proteins. A protein's conformation, in turn, typically is crucial to proper protein functioning and an extreme of lack of proper conformation is described as denaturation.

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