Horse3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Donkey3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Common zebra3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Pig, cow, sheep3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Dog3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Gray whale3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Rabbit3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Kangaroo3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Chicken, turkey3: Isoleucine, Valine, Glutamine
Penguin4: Isoleucine, Valine, Glutamine, 0
Pekin duck2: Valine, Glutamine
Snapping turtle3: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine
Rattlesnake4: Serine, Glycine, Threonine
Bullfrog4: Valine, Glutamine, Alanine, Cysteine
Tuna4: Alanine, Valine, Glutamine, Asparagine
Screwfly fly5: Valine, Glutamine, Arginine, Alanine
Silkworm moth8: Asparagine, Alanine, Asparagine, Valine, Glutamine, Arginine, Alanine, Alanine Tomato horn worm9: Asparagine, Alanine, Aspartic acid, Asparagine, Valine, Glutamine, Arginine, Alanine, Alanine Wheat10: Asparagine, Proline, Aspartic acid, Alanine, Alanine, Lysine, Threonine, Alanine, Aspartic acid, Alanine Rice9: Asparagine, Proline, Lysine, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Lysine, Threonine, Alanine, Aspartic acid Baker’s Yeast11: Serine, Alanine, Lysine, Alanine, Threonine, Leucine, Lysine, Threonine, Arginine, Glutamic acid, Leucine Candida Yeast13: Serine, Alanine, Lysine, Alanine, Threonine, Leucine, Lysine, Threonine, Arginine, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Isoleucine, Alanine Neurospora14: Serine, Lysine, Alanine, Asparagine, Leucine, Lysine, Threonine, Arginine, Alanine, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Glycine
The Report on Amino Acids
... Alanine is contained in skinless turkey. Arginine is contained in pumpkin seeds. Asparagine is contained in cooked beef. Aspartic acid ... seafood such as clams. Glutamine is contained in fish. Glutamic acid is contained in; light ... spirulina, eggs, quinoa, and meat sources. Lysine is contained eggs, quinoa, and meat sources ... and some vegetables such as spinach. Valine is contained in eggs, quinoa, and ...
Reflection Questions:
Summarize your amino acid comparison in paragraph form. To guide your summary, reflect on the following questions.
1.What does it mean when scientists say that living organisms share a universal genetic code? It means that all extinct organisms have all the same genetic code. 2.How does a universal genetic code relate to the hypotheses about the origin of life on Earth? The near-universal genetic code is that all extant things share some type of common ancestor. 3.How are self-replicating molecules, such as RNA molecules in the “RNA World” hypothesis, essential to the most popular hypotheses about the origin of life on Earth? They reproduce, and could have been formed through abiotic chemistry on the early Earth. 4.How might similarities and differences in genetic codes, or the proteins built as a result of these codes, be used to determine how closely related different species are? The more alike the letters are in a species, the more recent the ancestor was. If the ancestor was recent then the more alike the two different species will be. 5.Based on the amino acid sequence data for the Cytochome-C protein, chimpanzees and humans share an identical coding sequence. What other species identified on the chart has a coding sequence that is most closely related to the humans and chimpanzees and most distantly related? Explain your answer
