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The Mass Effect 2 Après Jeu Game Discussion Thread (with spoilers!!!)
JD:
Also hey wouldn't garrus and tali taste sweet, because Dextro amino acids are like Dextrose?
JD:
Reed you're a magic science man, tell me if that makes any sense.
Reed:
Not in the least, dextro is referring to their chirality. Any asymmetric organic molecule can be divided by the way it rotates light. So dextro and levo amino acids are exactly the same, with the exception being how the side groups around the alpha carbon are arranged. The only organisms on earth known to use D-amino acids are bacteria that use them structurally, not as the building blocks of proteins. I'm not 100% certain, but I think that their statements about D-amino acids causing allergic reactions in humans is bullshit. Chances are the amino acids simply wouldn't be processed by your body and would just be flushed out. Dextrose (glucose) is just a monosaccharide (and surprisingly not that sweet on its own, sucrose is much sweeter [I was actually curious about this so I tasted one of our 20% glucose stocks in lab]).
d-alanine:
l-alanine:
dextrose:
Reed:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes today's lesson in biochemistry.
kemon:
--- Quote from: Felrender on 14 Feb 2010, 13:24 ---
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 14 Feb 2010, 12:49 ---I want Kal'Reegar as a heavy weapons specialist in the third game.
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Him and an rocket launcher called "Vera".
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word. it would be awesome to have him come back in 3. also, i really get the impression that he's sweet on tali. but she's mine! well, my engineer's anyway.
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