What is your definition of the word biochemistry?

Proteins are important food nutrients. A technician working at a food company is interested in the nutritional content of seeds/

Vladimir79 [104]

Answer: Sample 1 then, has more variety of proteins but less quantity of each one, while sample 2 has less variety but more quantity of the two proteins present.

Explanation:

Proteins are molecules found in the cells of all living organisms. A protein is composed of monomers called amino acids linked together by peptide bonds. To analyze proteins, a technique called SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is used. This technique is used to separate proteins according to their electrophoretic mobility, depending on polypeptide chain length, molecular mass, post-translational modifications and other factors. SDS (sodium dodecylsulfate) is an anionic surfactant compound that breaks non-covalent bonds in proteins, denatures them causing these protein molecules to lose their native conformation and provides the polypeptide with a negative charge that is proportional to the chain length (the number of amino acids) and, therefore, to the molecular mass of the protein. The electrostatic repulsion created by the binding of SDS to the protein is one of the causes of the protein losing its native conformation, thus eliminating the differences in conformation of the different proteins to be separated in the gel.

An electric current is applied to the gel where the proteins are seeded, causing the negatively charged proteins to migrate through the gel in the direction of the anode (positively charged region). Short proteins will move more easily and faster through the pores of the gel, while larger proteins will find it more difficult to do so. After a certain time, the proteins will have migrated according to their size (measured in kDa or kiloDaltons). After electrophoresis, the gel should be stained with Coomassie blue or silver stain, allowing visualization of the separated proteins. After staining, the different proteins will appear as distinct bands on the gel. In addition, the higher the amount of a protein, the more intense the color of its band will be.

Extract No. 1 shows three bands: 25, 30 and 35 kDa. This means that it has three different proteins, each with a different molecular weight. Extract number 2 shows two bands: 25 and 35 kDa. It means that this sample has only 2 proteins. And being bands of higher intensity, we can say that there is more of each protein.

Sample 1 then, has more variety of proteins but less quantity of each one, while sample 2 has less variety but more quantity of the two proteins present.

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Human activity, such as the burning of coal and oil, refining petroleum in factories has impacted which of the following

Zarrin [17]

Answer:

carbon cycle

Explanation:

Carbon is an essential element in the bodies of living organisms. It is also economically important to modern humans, in the form of fossil fuels.

Carbon dioxide—\text {CO}_2CO

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start text, C, O, end text, start subscript, 2, end subscript—from the atmosphere is taken up by photosynthetic organisms and used to make organic molecules, which travel through food chains. In the end, the carbon atoms are released as \text {CO}_2CO

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start text, C, O, end text, start subscript, 2, end subscript in respiration.

Slow geological processes, including the formation of sedimentary rock and fossil fuels, contribute to the carbon cycle over long timescales.

Some human activities, such as burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, increase atmospheric \text{CO}_2CO

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start text, C, O, end text, start subscript, 2, end subscript and affect Earth's climate and oceans.

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Which of the following is a false statement concerning Amino groups

marissa [1.9K]

Answer:

they are found in all amino acids

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3 years ago

Food Web please help

a_sh-v [17]

A. land plants, tiny water plants
a. slug, frog, newt
b. plants, slug-insect-water fleas, frog-fish-newt, perch-fox, heron
c. water fleas, diving beetles
d. heron, perch
e. one thing that could happen if all frogs suddenly died is that there would be an overpopulation of slugs, insects, and beetles. another thing that could happen would be that foxes would only rely on getting slugs for food so the slugs would soon go extinct and the plants would possibly over populate.

hope this helps!!

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Earth tilt the sun radiation to strike the hemispheres at different

STatiana [176]

The seasons are caused as the Earth, tilted on its axis, travels in a loop around the Sun each year. Summer happens in the hemisphere tilted towards the Sun, and winter happens in the hemisphere tilted away from the Sun. As the Earth travels around the Sun, the hemisphere that is tilted towards or away from the Sun changes.

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