<?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 1 :: 2026a-prashant-shah</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/prashant-shah/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.html</link><description>Part A. Conceptual Questions
How many molecules of amino acids do you take with a piece of 500 grams of meat? (on average an amino acid is ~100 Daltons)
Hey, so I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t take a single gram of meat if I can avoid it.
However, 500 grams of meat is approximately 3.011e+26 Daltons. If an average amino acid is 100 Daltons, we’ll end up with 3.011e+24 amino acid molecules. That’s assuming that all of the meat is protein, which it isn’t. Meat is approximately 20% protein, so 20% of 500 is 100g protein, or 3.01e+24</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/prashant-shah/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>