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Need to unwind?

It would take the energy from the sugar in about two and a half cans of your favorite soft drink to unwind all the DNA in your entire body with the Rep helicase.*

Not that that's just going to happen if you have too much soda, or anything like that.





*An enzyme that unwinds DNA so it can be replicated.

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