The concept of the natural mate and the conjugate curves associated to a smooth curve in Euclidian 3-space were introduced initially by Dashmukh and others. In this paper, we give some extra results that add more properties of the natural mate and the conjugate curves associated with a smooth space curve in
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. The position vectors of the natural mate and the conjugate of a given smooth curve are investigated. Also, using the position vector of the natural mate, the necessary and sufficient condition for a smooth given curve to be a Bertrand curve is introduced. Moreover, a new characterization of a general helix is introduced.