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Protein Folding & Intermolecular Forces Simulation
Students explore how different molecular interactions contribute to protein folding and how changing the balance of those interactions changes the resulting three-dimensional structure. It connects intermolecular forces from chemistry with protein structure in biology. The full interactive is available to licensed Education Universe users.
Year 12, UndergraduateExplorer
Learning outcomes
- Identify the interactions that stabilise protein structure.
- Explain how changing those interactions changes the folded structure.
- Relate protein structure to function.
Teaching guidance
Ask students to predict which interaction matters most for a given fold, then test it by changing the balance.
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