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Conformation
Introduction
Conformation generally means structural arrangement.
In science, it may refer to:
- Chemical conformation, in chemistry, is the chemical structure of a molecule. In polymer chemistry, it’s the three-dimensional shape of the macromolecular chain.
- Protein conformation, in molecular biology and biochemistry, a (tertiary structure) is its overall shape as determined by its folding
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