DNA Double Helix in Nature #2 – Goat

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Look at this handsome, bearded fellow. He is a Markhor goat. He lives in places like Afghanistan. But it’s his spiralling horns that really impress me. They are the same beautiful double helix design of the DNA molecule. It does make you wonder how mother-nature set about planning her grand design. Can it be coincidental that the design for the blueprint of life at genetic level is also echoed in the parts we can see of animals, plants and galaxies?

There are other animals whose horns tend towards the double helix like this sheep:

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