#biochemistry

Protein functional categories and digestion

Proteins are molecules built from amino acids. Proteins make up a large portion of our body and serve extremely important functions....

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Naming unsaturated fatty acids.

Fatty acids are hydrocarbon chains with carboxylic acid at the end. Unsaturated fatty acids contain one or more double bonds, usually in...

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Lipid Function and Structure

Fatty acids are types of lipids that can be found in many different roles in our body including energy storage. Fatty acids consist of hydr

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Prions and Prion Disease Explanation

Prion is a misfolded version (wrong secondary and tertiary structure) of prion protein that is transformed to an infectious particle that le

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Shortcut to finding pI of an amino acid

Isoelectric point or pI is a pH at which an amino acid or protein has a net charge of zero. Biochemistry classes always ask students to...

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