<?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-raphael-aca</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/raphael-aca/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)
Assuming that meat contains about 20% protein, 500 grams of meat translates to ~100 grams of protein. If an amino acid weighs 100 Daltons, this will translate to 100 grams per mole of amino acids. Knowing this, we calculate 500 grams of meat to have one mole of amino acids. Using Avogadro’s constant, we can calulate the number to be 6 x 1023 molecules of amino acids in 500 grams of meat.</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/raphael-aca/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>