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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The three-dimensional structure of a protein or nucleic acid.
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- noun biochemistry, molecular biology The manner in which the
helices orsheets of aprotein arefolded to give athree-dimensional structure
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