Research
Project Blog#1
We are doing a research on proteins found
in different body parts of Turkey and Chicken to compare and see whether
proteins found within an organism are more or less similar than proteins found
between organisms that carry out the same functions.
Its
shape determines the function of a protein and its shape is determined by its
unique amino acid sequence. The fact that proteins that have similar functions
have similar structures has been used to estimate how genetically similar species
are. Even though functionally similar proteins have similar amino acid sequence,
they are not exactly the same between organisms. The difference in amino acid sequence
of functionally similar proteins between organisms is due to single amino acid
substitutions. This could mean there is very saddling difference between
proteins found in proteins in the same body parts of similar functions of a
turkey and a chicken.
Having done this research successfully, we
would not only be able to answer the question of are functionally similar
proteins of different species more similar than proteins within an organism of
different functions but also how similar chicken is to turkey by comparing and analyzing
their proteins.
REFERENCE.
Access Science [Internet]. [Updated 2014].
Chapel Hill (NC): Department of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina; [Cited
2017 Feb 10]. Available from: http://www.accessscience.com.edmonds.idm.oclc.org/content/proteins-evolution-of/550400
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