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    Rubisco Lab Report

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    Introduction Proteins are critical components in understanding cells and organisms which can contribute to further developments in medicine. Proteins compose more than 50% of the dry weight of cells [2]. Enzymes are the proteins that catalyze most reactions in a cell that keeps the cell going. By isolating protein scientists can understand, modify, and sequence specific proteins away from other cellular components. The specific protein being looked at is Rubisco (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/

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    Crystallography Lab

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    Crystallography is one of the best methods that is used to study the three-dimensional shape of the protein structure. Crystallography doesn’t directly work on the three-dimensional structure, but rather it works on studying the protein crystals that are used to find the three-dimensional structure of the proteins. The different concentration of salts and the protein play a big rule in the quantity and size of the proteins. In our experiment, we had 6 wells labeled from A1 till A6, and had different

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    Initially, I experienced shock, grief, and anger after being enlightened to these astounding statistical approximations. Even if the scientists estimating these statistics were slightly inaccurate, humanity would be doomed without a significant reduction of animal product consumption, and the information rattled my soul. I spent weeks attempting to accept this new knowledge and sought to debunk the estimates provided in the documentary. All I discovered was more evidence to support the claims and

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    Packers like to buy market hogs that weigh in the range of 220-260 pounds. Amino acids, normally supplied by dietary protein, are required for maintenance, muscle growth, development of fetuses and supporting tissues in gestating sows, and milk production in lactating sows. Of the 22 amino acids, twelve are synthesized by the animal the other ten must be provided in the diet for normal growth. The ten dietary essential amino acids for swine are arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine

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    It has been known that the growth and development of muscle of pigs essentially requires dietary supply of proteins, or its small subunits, which are amino acids (AA). There are 20 AA that serve as building blocks for protein biosynthesis, but not all AA are essential amino acids (EAA) required from diets because pigs can de novo synthesize 10 of them. (Liao et al., 2015). In addition, the EAA are defined as those AA that require to be supplied in diets exogenously because pigs cannot synthesize

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    World hunger is considered one of the global food crises and sadly more than more 850 million people in the world are suffering from it specially in developing countries. (Holt,2008,para.1).Some people assume that world hunger is still a grave problem because simply there is no enough food to feed everyone. However , scientists who have studied world hunger will tell you that the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet. But why there is still many people suffering from

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    Western Blot Analysis

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    The technique used in this experiment was western blot to determine the protein levels in different cow’s stages; fetal calf serum, newborn calf serum and cow serum. Western blot is technique commonly used to identify proteins by its movement in the gel electrophoresis. Western blot is use to separate protein based on its molecular weight in gel electrophoresis. The proteins separated in the gel, then transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane using an electron current (1). Finally the membrane is

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    other carbon atoms which creates a 4-sided building block for the creation of multi-atomic molecules. The basic structures of every known living organisms, known as macromolecules, are created with carbon: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (DNA & RNA). No other known elements have properties to create such large, diverse, and structurally unique molecules (The Carbon Molecule,

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    stores energy. ATP drives physiological mechanisms in the body readily and can be found in the cytoplasm of every cell. Without ATP, cells would not be able to operate as they do, and without phosphates, ATP would not exist. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are important in carrying genetic information. Similar to ATP, both RNA and RNA require a phosphate

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    Hydrazino-Spengler Essay

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    8. Hydrazino-Pictet-Spengler ligation reaction = In this reaction, the aliphatic and aromatic hydrazines are used as a substrate to undergo pictet-spengler reaction with aldehydic and ketonic group. As described in the above category 7, the various substrates are used for ligation with aldehydic and ketonic groups of the proteins, P. Agarwal and research group developed the Hydrazino-Pictet-Spengler(HIPS) ligation reaction so that the stable protein conjugates can be developed . This strategy can

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