<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Week 04 HW: Protein Design Part 1 :: 2026a-rahul-yaji</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/rahul-yaji/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.html</link><description>Part A. Conceptual Questions Answer any NINE of the following:
1. 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) Assume that the mass of other components like fat, collagen etc. are negligible compared to proteins in meat.
Average wight of 1 molecule of amino acid = 100 Dalton = 1.7 * $10^{-24}$ g
Weight of piece of meat = 5 * $10^{2}$ g
Therefore, number of amino acid molecules = (5 * $10^{2}$) / 1.7 * $10^{-24}$ = 2.94 * $10^{26}$</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/rahul-yaji/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>