https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/rus-darius/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.htmlPart I of Protein Design 1. How many molecules of amino acids do you take with a piece of 500 grams of meat? Meat is approximately 20% protein. 500g $\times$ 0.20 = 100g of protein. Average amino acid weight $\approx$ 100 Daltons. 100g / 100 g/mol = 1 mole of amino acids. You consume approximately $6.022 \times 10^{23}$ molecules of amino acids. 2. Why do humans eat beef but do not become a cow, or eat fish but do not become fish? During digestion, enzymes break down foreign proteins into individual amino acids. Our cells then use our own DNA blueprint to reassemble those amino acids into human proteins. We use the same “bricks” to build a different “house.”Hugoen