Bio-Engineering: Making and Testing Model Proteins

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“Biological engineers design solutions in the form of machines, structures, processes and instrumentation that address problems involving living biological systems including plants, animals and microbes. In this activity, like bio-engineers, students imagine and create structures that model the functions of specific proteins and then test how well they perform, all while guided by the engineering design process.”

Answer the following questions:

  1. What are the molecules that make up proteins?
  2. Where in a cell are the instructions for making a protein located?
  3. Which molecule in your body holds the instructions for making protein?
  4. Why does a cell make mRNA?
  5. What is it called when the mRNA goes to the ribosome and makes the protein?
  6. List two things proteins can do.

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