A. Do you understand
how information passes from DNA through RNA to protein? (at the level set
in the reading)
B. Can imagine a biological
system that displays a degree of complexity suggested in the reading?
C. Do you see (at the level
set in the reading) how genes might determine the function of an organism?
D. Do you understand how
amphipathic lipids can self-assemble into the sphere shown in Fig. 3B?
E. Do you understand the
relationship between monomers and the four major types of biological polymers?
F. Do you see in general
how enzymes can control the flow of metabolites along desired paths?
G. Choose up to two study
questions that you would most like discussed in class:
SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ4 SQ5 SQ6 SQ7
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through II.F: |
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A. Do you understand what an amino acid is and
how they differ from one another?
B. Do you understand how amino acids are joined to form
proteins?
C. Do you understand in general how the sequence of amino
acids of a protein contribute to its ultimate three-dimensional shape?
D. Do you understand the distinction between primary,
secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures of proteins?
E. Do you understand how the entire three-dimensional
structure participates in forming the critical active site of chymotrypsin?
F. Do you understand two ways in which hydrophobic amino
acids can direct a protein to sit in a membrane?
G. Do you see how a greater ability to predict protein
function from its primary structure would change the world we live in?
H. Choose up to three study
questions that you would most like discussed in class:
SQ8 SQ9 SQ10 SQ11 SQ12 SQ13 SQ14
| Comments for questions III.A
through III.H: |
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