<?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-sofya-rakitina</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/sofya-rakitina/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.html</link><description>Part A. Conceptual Questions 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)
500g of meat = ~20% protein 100g ÷ 110 g/mol ≈ 0.91 mol 0.91 × 6.022 × 10²³ ≈ 5.5 × 10²³ molecules*
Why are there only 20 natural amino acids?</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/sofya-rakitina/homework/week-04-hw-protein-design-part-i/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>