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In this lesson, students will learn how a mass spectrometer can be used to idenify the types of protein in a biological sample, learn how proteins are analyzed from a dinosaur fossil, and be able to analyze protein mass spectra and to compare two mass spectra in order to identify an unknown protein fragment.
Subject
Biology
Engineering
Grade Level Range
Elementary (4-5)
Middle School (6-8)
High School (9-12)
Documents
mass_spectrometry.zip
(20.66 MB)