Runaway selection: Females choose mates without the offering of obvious material benefits or parenting skills, and instead make their choices based on plumage color or courtship peahen may choose her peacock with long tail feather.

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Signal sequences

contain one or more positively charged amino acids adjacent to a continuous stretch of 6–12 hydrophobic residues (known as the hydrophobic core)

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Signal sequence

ER targeting sequence, located at the N-terminus of the protein

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Microsomes

when cells are homogenized, the rough ER breaks up into small closed vesicles with ribosomes on the outside

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Secretory pathway

pathway of protein trafficking that flows through the ER

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The ER captures selected proteins from the cytosol as they are being synthesized. These are of two types:

Transmembrane proteins

Water-soluble proteins

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Muscle cells have an abundant, modified smooth ER called the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

The release and reuptake of Ca2+ by the sarcoplasmic reticulum trigger myofibril contraction and relaxation, respectively