First sugar residue is attached to dolichol by a high-energy pyrophosphate linkage & the other sugars are added by glycosidic bonds

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In most mammalian tissues, ubiquinone (also called coenzyme Q) has 10 isoprene units.

Dolichols of animals have 17 to 21 isoprene units (85 to 105 carbon atoms), bacterial dolichols have 11, and those of plants and fungi have 14 to 24.

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Breaking a bond always require energy to be added to the molecule. Correspondingly, making a bond always releases energy.

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The selection gradient measures the strength of directional selection acting on a quantitative trait.

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Desmosine is formed from four Lys residues