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From: Sam Moghtaderi BK 97 <sammogh@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
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Subject: Line-talk: DNA Double Helix
Date: 24 Feb 1995 21:15:19 -0600
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I noticed a reply post a couple days ago to a request for a DNA double 
helix.  The reply had something resembling an hour glass, which was 
enough to get me to try and see if I could come up with something.
These two are what I made up.  One is with "base-pairs" and one is 
without (you decide which one looks better/clearer).  They are also both 
techincally accurate to some extent, being right handed helices with 
different size major and minor grooves. Also, only four lines long.

-. .-.   .-. .-.   .-. .-.   .  
||\|||\ /|||\|||\ /|||\|||\ /|
|/ \|||\|||/ \|||\|||/ \|||\||
~   `-~ `-`   `-~ `-`   `-~ `-
-. .-.   .-. .-.   .-. .-.   .
  \   \ /   \   \ /   \   \ /
 / \   \   / \   \   / \   \
~   `-~ `-`   `-~ `-`   `-~ `-

--
Sam Moghtaderi '97
Berkeley College at Yale University
http://www.cis.yale.edu/~sammogh/sammy.html