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How many different proteins composed of 100 amino acids could possibly exist?

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The number of possible proteins in humans is twenty.

The number of amino acids you can use it's called n, and the number of possible proteins then will be P=20^n.

In this case, you have 100 amino acids if you replace the n in the equation P=20^100 possible proteins.

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