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Natural Sciences · Intermediate
Molecules of Life
Living things are made from a handful of molecular building blocks strung into enormous chains. Find out how amino acids join into proteins, then fold protein chains yourself on a grid, tucking oily beads away from water the way real proteins do. Pair up the bases of DNA, fit the speed curve of an enzyme, see why soap-like molecules build cell walls by themselves, and trace the energy in a sugar molecule all the way to ATP.
7 lessons~35 min0/7 complete
Start courseHelpful background: Organic Chemistry, and Forces Between Molecules
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Proteins
Chains that fold themselves.
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Information and Energy
DNA, membranes, fuel.