Project: Modeling a Receptor Site
Modeling a Receptor Site
Build a space-filling model of a smell molecule from a compound in one of the five smell classifications you have studied. Use clay, plaster, sand, or other materials to build a receptor site for this smell molecule. Describe other molecules that might fit into the receptor site you built. Then create a space-filling model of a molecule that will not fit into the receptor site you built.
Your project should include
the receptor site model that you built, labeled with the smell that it detects and a description of molecules that fit into it
a space-filling model of a molecule that fits into the receptor site and one that does not (label which is which)