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Mistake Master · AP Biology · Unit 1 · Step-Through Animation

The Sequence Decides Everything

You'll learnhow a protein's amino-acid sequence folds it into a working shape, and why the peptide bonds survive denaturation.

A protein begins as a list — amino acids in a fixed order — and folds through four levels of structure into a shape that does a job. The sequence decides the fold, the fold decides the function, and heat can take the shape without ever touching the sequence. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · 1° → 2° → 3° → 4° · SEQUENCE DETERMINES FOLD · DENATURING KEEPS THE SEQUENCE · v6

a list folds into a shape · the shape is the job
Before you start
What you're looking at
Ten amino-acid beads joined by nine peptide bonds, read N to C. A real protein has hundreds of residues; ten is just the legible number.
The question
How does a list of amino acids become a folded shape that does a job?
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