Almost all amino acids are chiral. The body only uses L amino acids, and proteins are chains of amino acids that in the simplest sense fold up into a single structure by themselves when they are formed. Do you think a cell could live with all D (the opposite of L) amino acids, explain your logic?

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Almost all amino acids are chiral. The body only uses L amino acids, and proteins are chains of amino acids that in the simplest sense fold up into a single structure by themselves when they are formed. Do you think a cell could live with all D (the opposite of L) amino acids, explain your logic? 

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