LSCI 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unpaired Electron, Disulfide, Hydrogen Bond

• School: McGill University
• Department: Life Sciences
• Course: LSCI 211
• Professor: Reza Salavati

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*there is many ways to find out how things work like using yeast and fruit flies. We can get rid of a gene and see how they behave (this falls under classical genetics) *a biochemist on the other hand isolates a protein and looks at its structure in details. *it"s the (cid:271)io(cid:272)he(cid:373)ist that (cid:449)ould dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)e the position of each atom in a protein in space can become a drug target by pharmaceutical companies. *notably, biochemists are not limited by proteins, but they usually work with proteins. *there was a period where classical geneticists and biochemists did not talk to each other it was molecular biology that brought these 2 fields together. All cells share some common features: both bacterial cells and animal cells share 3 things in common, cytoplasm, plasma membrane, ribosomes. *note that a bacterial cell does not have a nucleus: within the bacterial cell, it is 70% water, notably, macromolecules makes-up.