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Protein Nutrition

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Protein   Essiential in human body helps maintainhealthy body  
Amino Acids   Building blocks of cells contains Nitrogen  
How many out of the 20 amino acidsare considered essiential   9  
Transamination   Process of transferring the amine group to amino group to make a new amino acid  
Transcription   Messenger RNA opies genetic information from DNA in the nucleus  
Limiting Amino acid   essential amino acid that is missingslows down protein synthesis  
What is the only type of food considered as Complete Protein   Soybeans  
Role of dietary protein   Maintain body tissue  
What is the standard use of measuring Protein   Eggs (100)  
Pepsinogen active form/role   Pepsin breaks proteint to smaller amino acids  
Protease   Enzyme from pancreas breaks peptide bonds to free amino acids  
Peptidases   Enzyme from instestnial cells splits peptide bonds inot single amino acids for absorption  
Use of Protein   For Cell growth Repair and maintenance  
Transport Proteins   Proteins help transport substances throught the body across cell membranes  
Edema   dissorder where fluids build up in the tusse spaces of the body  
Acidosis   disorder where blood becomes acidic  
alkalosis   disorder where blood becomes basic,too littleHydrogen  
Deamination   Loss of Nitrogen,produces ammonia, convertedto urea  
RDA for protein for sedentary people   0.8gram per kilogram of body weight  
Sickel cell anemia   Gentic disorder,blood sickel shape,unable to travel well in bloodstream  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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