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Protein molecules are composed of amino acids, which contain nitrogen and sometimes sulphur. Your body uses amino acids to produce new proteins and to replace damaged proteins.
Your body can synthesize most of the 21 amino acids that you need to make protein, with the exception of nine essential amino acids (histadine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine) that must come from your food.
All unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs.
In 1914, Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel conducted studies on rats, which suggested that they grew best when fed a combination of plant foods whose amino acid patterns resembled that of animal protein. That makes sense, as all baby mammals, rats and humans included, grow best when fed the perfect food for baby mammals: their mother's milk. The term "complete protein" was coined to describe a protein in which all eight or nine essential amino acids are present in the same proportion that they occur in animals. "Incomplete protein" described the varying amino acid patterns in plants. It's a misleading term, because it suggest that humans (and other animals, one would assume) can't get enough essential amino acids to make protein from plants.
The theory that plant proteins are somehow "incomplete" and therefore inadequate has been disproven. All unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in any single one of these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs, even if you are an endurance athlete or body builder.
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The strategy of combining two incomplete plant protein sources so that the amino acids in one food make up for those lacking in the other food is called?
Protein combining, sometimes called protein complementing, is often practiced by vegetarians in order to ensure optimal metabolic performance. The concept was originally utilized in animals, but became more popular in human dieting in the 1970s.
Example of incomplete dominance?
An example of incomplete dominance is when a white flower and red flower mate and create a pink flower. The white and red colors mix creating the pink. Neither allele is dominant, resulting in a combination of the two.
If an offspring shows a phenotype that is intermediate between the phenotypes of the parents what is this type of inheritance?
Incomplete dominance can create offspring that display a trait not identical to either parent but intermediate to the two. One example of incomplete dominance is a red flower and a white flower crossbreed to form a pink flower.
A protein kinase activating many other protein kinases is an example of?
amplification.
An example of incomplete dominance is?
Incomplete dominance is where the phenotype of the heterozygote is intermediate to both the heterozygotes. The classic example of this phenomenon is pink snapdragons. If you cross red and white snapdragons, you get pink snapdragons, because neither the red or white allele is dominant to the other.
incomplete protein is?
is incomplete
What is incomplete protein?
is incomplete
Is protein in all food and drink?
No, for example Dr.Pepper has no protein
What kind of protein are beans?
incomplete
Is protein only found in food?
Protein can be in drinks too. Like milk for example.
Is sugar an incomplete protein?
Sugar is not a protein. It is a carbohydrate. A sugar molecule can be used as a building block of a protein but it is not a protein.
Is milk an incomplete or complete protein?
complete
What is an example of incomplete combustion of sucrose?
For example the preparation of caramel can be considered an incomplete combustion.
What is an example of a black mouse being crossed with a white mouse and all the offspring produced was gray?
Incomplete dominance
Why is meat protein good for you?
Protein is needed by the body to grow and repair itself. Meat has the highest concentrations of complete protein in the world of food. Individual vegetable proteins are incomplete and so vegetables must be combined with other vegetables to create complete protein structures. Meats offer complete proteins.
Protein digestion begins in the mouth by the enzyme amylase.?
No, amylase begins the conversion of starch into the disaccharide maltose although this conversion is incomplete because food is in the mouth for a relatively short period of time. protein digestion begins in the stomach.
What food does cattle give us example beef?
Beef gives us protein.
