What is a protein? Cell biology
When the first amino acids came to Earth from space inside chunks of ice about five billion years ago, the ice melted on the hot Earth and turned to water, and the [...]
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What are lipids? Cell biology
Highly magnified view of a cell wall made of lipids When did the first lipids form? Around four billion years ago, some of the amino acid molecules that were on [...]
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Thermal proteins project: Chewing gum and rubberbands
Oil and water You can easily see for yourself how the amino acids formed into little spheres or bubbles. They were trying to get as far away from the water as [...]
