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Illustration of some of the thermodynamic factors associated with helix formation in DNA. Overall, enthalpy is highly favorable for helix formation but entropy is nearly as highly unfavorable. The two-state model is shown, in which strands undergo an all-or-none transition between helical and single-stranded states; however, this is an oversimplification for many nucleic acid complexes.
