{"id":105530,"date":"2020-04-16T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lifes-other-mystery-why-biologys-building-blocks-are-so-lop-sided"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:43:10","slug":"lifes-other-mystery-why-biologys-building-blocks-are-so-lop-sided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lifes-other-mystery-why-biologys-building-blocks-are-so-lop-sided","title":{"rendered":"Life\u2019s other mystery: Why biology\u2019s building blocks are so lop-sided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lifes-other-mystery-why-biologys-building-blocks-are-so-lop-sided3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How this bias began and why it persisted is one of the most baffling questions in biology \u2013 but now we have an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How this bias began and why it persisted is one of the most baffling questions in biology \u2013 but now we have an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}