How to Use double helix in a Sentence

double helix

noun

• Steckl said the magic stems from the double helix shape of salmon DNA.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2021
• The basic unit of DNA is the base pair, one of the rungs on the twisted ladder that makes up the double helix.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• About 99% of the 6 billion steps in the spiral staircase of DNA’s double helix are the same for all of us.
  — Robert Plomin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• First, the process would heat the DNA to break its double helix structure into two strands.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022
• The year before that, a double helix wound its way upwards.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
• In a country where the cultural DNA is more ski track than double helix, this is just how it’s done.
  — Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2017
• The famous double helix of a DNA strand twists right, along with the sugars that comprise its backbone; the amino acids in proteins twist left.
  — Luba Ostashevsky, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
• Kahn implemented a double helix design that allowed cars to go down and up on the same ramp at the same time.
  — Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• To form the i-motif, the double helix untwists and then one of the strands bunches up with a bunch of cytosine molecules.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
• One of the most familiar shapes in science is DNA’s double helix structure.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
• With strong suction and a double helix brush roll, the stick vacuum is designed to keep hard floors and carpets spotless.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• Each copy of the genome — almost every cell has its own copy — consists of about 3 billion base pairs lined up in the famous double helix structure.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Many will dance, embodying that double helix of the sacred yet campy that Mormons have mastered.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• The year before that, there was a floral double helix, an decorative ode to that year’s theme, Manus x Machina.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
• But right now, most of the world doesn’t have regulations about what scientists — and someday, hobbyists — can and can’t do to the double helix.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2015
• Each one is a single strand of the famous double helix that folds into a U-shape, designed to interlock with four neighbours.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2012
• The end result is a permanent edit that replaces the original DNA sequence on both sides of the double helix.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2019
• Its approach involved taking single strands of the double helix and stuffing them through a protein pore.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
• The base pairing that holds the double helix together always involves pairing a one-ringed base with a two-ringed base, which maintains a constant width of the helix.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2019
• Watson, a dining table made from carbon fiber and thin layers of wood, has legs that form double helixes.
  — Tim McKeough, ELLE Decor, 16 May 2011
• Revive Music produces concerts that engage a double helix of jazz and hip-hop.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The massive food hall is always busy with diners enjoying a constant display of dazzling LED lights on the grand double helix staircase in the middle of the space.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
• The advent of computers was still almost three decades away, and the DNA double helix was only just being discovered.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• This model has the benefit of a spinning double helix of water streams that’s certain to douse your opponent.
  — Zachary MacK, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
• Still another has twisting twin strands erupting from her dress like a giant DNA double helix.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• This is one sick twist of a tryst, with the two forming a strange — and ultimately tiresome — double helix of sadomasochistic desire and overweening ego.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• There is a lot of repetition, beginning with the two strands of nucleotides that zip together to form DNA’s double helix.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
• Nearby, gleeful screams emanated from a ride shaped like a double helix, and a child reached into a shoulder holster of baby-pink cotton candy for a bite of fluff.
  — Ella Quittner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• British scientists discovered the DNA double helix and were part of the international team that first sequenced the human genome.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2021
• In a person’s cells, space radiation can sever both strands of a DNA molecule’s double helix.
  — Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024