STEM Dictionary

Lab Sciences:

Decompose

Decontamination

Dehydration

Denaturation

Dendrites

Density

Deoxyribonucleic (DNA)

Diagnosis

Diffuse

Digestive sytem

Dilution

Dissolve

Distillation

DNA sequence

Dominant (genetics)

Denaturation

Definition

process in which the 3D shape of a protein is lost

Sentence

Heat makes a protein flexible, while cold makes it rigid.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.