My AP Biology students took their knowledge of proteins, and the properties of their amino acids to create a 3D model of what their protein would actually look like. Some of the factors that they had to follow was the hydrophobic natures(will not mix with water), hydrophilic natures(will mix with water), and ionic charges of amino acids. These three models make up a tertiary protein structure. When they put the three together in the first picture, they had an example of a quartinary structure of the protein. Great Lab!
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