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Lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down bacterial cell walls and is found in your tears, mucus, and saliva. A mutation occurs in the gene for lysozyme that results in a lysine (a positively charged amino acid) being substituted for an arginine (also a positively charged amino acid). Do you think that the mutant lysozyme will function similarly to the normal lysozyme? Explain why or why not?

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Description: lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down bacterial cell walls and is found in your tears mucus and saliva a mutation occurs in the gene for lysozyme that results in a lysine a positively charg 81772

          Lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down bacterial cell walls and
is found in your tears, mucus, and saliva. A mutation occurs in the
gene for lysozyme that results in a lysine (a positively charged
amino acid) being substituted for an arginine (also a positively
charged amino acid). Do you think that the mutant lysozyme will
function similarly to the normal lysozyme? Explain why or why
not?

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12/06/2021

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Lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down bacterial cell walls and is found in your tears, mucus, and saliva. A mutation occurs in the gene for lysozyme that results in a lysine (a positively charged amino acid) being substituted for an arginine (also a positively charged amino acid). Do you think that the mutant lysozyme will function similarly to the normal lysozyme? Explain why or why not?