The answer came, in part, thanks to a massive physical model of the protein deoxyhemoglobin (hemoglobin not yet bonded to oxygen ... model of deoxyhemoglobin in his basement to study how the ...

The Evolution of Hemoglobin "One can reconstruct this evolution by comparing the sequence of amino acid units in the several molecular chains of human hemoglobin and in hemoglobin chains from ...

which result from defective synthesis of one or more hemoglobin chains, have been identified. Notably, sickle cell anemia was the first genetic disease to be examined at the molecular level.

Rates of amino acid changes in fibrinopeptides, hemoglobin, and cytochrome c ... we can easily use the molecular differences to date species divergence. For example, if we found that the ...