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7. Proteins are built from 20 amino acids. How many different proteins with 50 amino acid residues are possible?

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50 is possible for amino acid

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That would be 20 to the 50th power.
You’re making a protein consisting of 50 amino acid subunits. and u have 20 choices for each place. So 20^50.

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