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Biochemistry 6th Edition by Reginald Garrett,Charles Grisham

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1305577206
book Biochemistry 6th Edition by Reginald Garrett,Charles Grisham cover

Biochemistry 6th Edition by Reginald Garrett,Charles Grisham

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1305577206
Exercise 1
Assessing the biochemical consequences of animal anatomy
The cheetah is generally regarded as nature's fastest mammal, but another amazing athlete in the animal kingdom (and almost as fast as the cheetah) is the pronghorn antelope, which roams the plains of Wyoming. Whereas the cheetah can maintain its top speed of 70 mph for only a few seconds, the pronghorn antelope can run at 60 mph for about an hour! (It is thought to have evolved to do so in order to elude now-extinct ancestral cheetahs that lived in North America.) What differences would you expect in the muscle structure and anatomy of pronghorn antelopes that could account for their remarkable speed and endurance?
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Several features of the pronghorn antelo...

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