<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Week 4 HW: Protein Design Part I :: 2026a-abhinav-rajendran</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/abhinav-rajendran/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.html</link><description>Part A: Conceptual Questions (Shuguang Zhang) Q1: How many molecules of amino acids do you take with a piece of 500 grams of meat?
Meat is roughly 25% protein by weight, so 500g of meat contains ~125g of protein. The average amino acid has a molecular weight of ~110 Da (daltons), i.e. ~110 g/mol. So 125g ÷ 110 g/mol ≈ 1.14 mol of amino acid residues. Multiply by Avogadro’s number (6.022 × 10²³): roughly 6.8 × 10²³ amino acid molecules, just over one mole.</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/abhinav-rajendran/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>