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Your protein is made up of a series of segments called residues. Think of it like a long chain of bendy Lego pieces with arms sticking out of each piece. « Each residue is an amino acid: there are 20 kinds of them in Foldit.»
Each residue is blue <i style="color:blue;"(hydrophilic) or style=”color:orange;"(hydrophobic) </i>.