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What is structural protein in plants?
Cellulose is the structural protein in plants.
Collagen is an example of which type of protein?
structural protein
What is protein used for in plants?
proteins in plants are mainly enzymes and structural molecules. Cellulose is not a protein, but chloroplasts contain proteins. Hope this helps!
What does NOT contain a structural protein?
an ovalbumin does not contain a structural protein.
What is protein keratin?
It a structural protein
How do plants make protein?
Enzymes are proteins, as too are many structural parts of plants, and even organelles within cells are composed of protein. Nuts and seeds always contain large amounts of protein, as they need to support the plant in its first few days of 'life'.
What does it mean when a protein ''deatured'' and how does this affect the protein's function?
Proteins tend to have 3 or 4 structural levels, every protein has specific level, in which it can function. Denaturation brings protein back to the 1st structural level, so it can no longer function. For example, enzymes have the 4th structural level, then they can function. And when they are denaturated, they are brought back to the 1st level and cannot function.
What kind of protein is a collagen?
Structural Protein
Is collagen a structural protein?
yes it is.
What are the two types of protein?
structural proteins and enzymes.
Name two types of structural proteins in your body?
Structural proteins are fibrous. Some examples of these are: skin, fur, hair, wool, claws, nails, hooves, horns, scales, beaks and feathers.
Is Lignin an example of structural protein in plants?
Lignin is not a protein but it the "cement" that binds cellulose together to give plants and trees its structural strength. Lignin offers rigidity (so trees have more lignin than plants) whereas cellulose offers load bearing capability (like iron rods in reinforced concrete). The equivalent of lignin in animals is collagen, which is a protein. An interesting fact linking these two structural support molecules, lignin in plants, and collagen in animals, is that both the biomolecules require oxygen for their synthesis. So nature could have only created multicellular organisms with structure after oxygen became abundant on earth. The abundance of oxygen itself was triggered by single cell bacteria that "excreted" oxygen when they made food from sunlight. So nature "bootstrapped" larger living creatures using the excretion of single cell life.
