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Figure 5.20 Exploring Levels of Protein Structure 84 Sickle - Cell Disease : A
Simple Change in Primary Structure Even a slight change in primary structure
can affect a protein's conformation and ability to function . For instance , the
substitution ...
Figure 5.20 Exploring Levels of Protein Structure 84 Sickle - Cell Disease : A
Simple Change in Primary Structure Even a slight change in primary structure
can affect a protein's conformation and ability to function . For instance , the
substitution ...
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Normal red blood cells are disk - shaped , but in sickle - cell disease , the
abnormal hemoglobin molecules tend to crystallize , deforming some of the cells
into a sickle shape ( Figure 5.21 ) . The life of someone with the disease is
punctuated ...
Normal red blood cells are disk - shaped , but in sickle - cell disease , the
abnormal hemoglobin molecules tend to crystallize , deforming some of the cells
into a sickle shape ( Figure 5.21 ) . The life of someone with the disease is
punctuated ...
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... usually consisting of from several hundred to more than a thousand genes .
When a cell reproduces itself by dividing , its DNA molecules are copied and
passed along from one generation of cells to the next . Encoded in the structure
of DNA ...
... usually consisting of from several hundred to more than a thousand genes .
When a cell reproduces itself by dividing , its DNA molecules are copied and
passed along from one generation of cells to the next . Encoded in the structure
of DNA ...
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| Title | Biology, Pages 82-91 Biology, Neil A. Campbell |
| Author | Neil A. Campbell |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | Pearson, Benjamin Cummings, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Jul 2011 |
| Length | 1231 pages |
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