Biology/Fibrous Protein
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Why fibrous protein such as keratin that make up our hairs has a high tensile strength and a certain degree of elasticiy?
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Why questions are difficult to answer. They involve evolutionary biology which merely tells things are as they are because that is what works best.
The best answer I can give you is that elasticity and tensile strength are physical and chemical properties of fibrous proteins. The chemistry of the compound gives it these properties.
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Walter Hintz
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