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Title: You have curly hair and your brother has straight hair. Describe how the protein
Post by: colleen on Aug 16, 2012
You have curly hair and your brother has straight hair. Describe how the proteins of your curly hair are different from the proteins of his straight hair.


Title: Re: You have curly hair and your brother has straight hair. Describe how the protein
Post by: duddy on Aug 16, 2012
The keratin proteins in your curly hair have disulfide bonds in certain locations that cause the keratin to have bends or curls. The disulfide bonds in your brother's straight hair are in locations that don't cause bends in the keratin, so there are no curls.


Title: Re: You have curly hair and your brother has straight hair. Describe how the protein
Post by: colleen on Aug 16, 2012
Thank you, kind sir :)