Being The Unused Enantiomer

Being The Unused Enantiomer
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The molecular discrimination is real! This meme perfectly captures the biological favoritism in our bodies. D-glucose (the happy baby) is living its best life as the form our bodies can metabolize for energy, while L-glucose (the crying baby) is literally useless to our enzymes. Despite being mirror images of each other, our chiral biological machinery can only process one stereoisomer. Talk about molecular privilege! L-glucose is just sitting there with the exact same chemical formula but wrong spatial arrangement, like showing up to a party with the right invitation but through the wrong door.

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