Autophagy can be either

• Nonselective autophagy

• Selective autophagy

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Optically active chiral molecules will preferentially absorb one direction of the circularly polarized light. 

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

If an optically active molecule has a positive CD, then its enantiomer will have a negative CD of exactly the same magnitude.

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

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A photoelastic modulator (PEM) is then used to convert the linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light.

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

An optically active chiral compound will absorb the two directions of circularly polarized light by different amounts

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

In a chiral medium the molar absorptivity of LCP and RCP light are different so they will be absorbed by the medium in different amounts.