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Course: AP??/College Biology?>?Unit 1
Lesson 4: Properties, structure, and function of biological macromolecules- Molecular structure of DNA
- Antiparallel structure of DNA strands
- Molecular structure of RNA
- Introduction to amino acids
- Overview of protein structure
- Introduction to carbohydrates
- Carbohydrates
- Molecular structure of triglycerides (fats)
- Saturated fats, unsaturated fats, and trans fats
- Biological macromolecules review
- Properties, structure, and function of biological macromolecules
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Properties, structure, and function of biological macromolecules
Problem
The image below depicts how the bacterial protein barnase undergoes modifications that involve changing its conformation, or shape. In order to function in the cell, barnase has to be folded from a nonfunctional conformation into a functional conformation.
Image credit: By Christopher Rowley [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons
Based on the information above, which of the following best describes the functional conformation of barnase?