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How Do Fibers Form?


Author: BioInteractive
Subject: Biochemistry
Source: BioInteractive
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In this activity, students construct models of sickle cell hemoglobin fibers inside red blood cells to illustrate how changes in the structure of a protein can affect cell shape, as described in the short film The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans.

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