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| How many different amino acids are there? |
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| Are all amino acids alpha or beta? why? |
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| alpha, b/c all amine groups are attached to the alpha carbons |
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| What does it mean for an amino acid to be aliphatic? |
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| Does not contain aromatic ring on side chain |
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| What are the aliphatic amino acids? |
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| Glycine, Alanine, Valine, Leucine, Isoleucine |
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| How many isoforms of threonine are there and who discovered them? |
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| Which amino acid contains a thioether? |
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| Which amino acid contains a monocarboxylic diamino? |
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| Which amino acid contains an indole ring? |
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| Which amino acid contains a heterocyclic ring and an imadazole ring? |
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| How large (usually) is a disulfide linkage? |
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| In titration what is the Pi zone? |
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| The zone where the compound has a zero net charge |
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| Which is the smallest of all gamma globulins? |
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| When two compounds are found in equal concentrations in solution how is this represented? |
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Which amino acid contains a sulfhydro group?
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| What are the essential amino acids? |
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| Phenylalanine, Valine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Isoleucine, Methionine, Histidine, Arginine, Leucine, Lysine |
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| Which essential amino acids will humans begin to be able to synthesize as they mature? |
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- Molecules with the same number of ionizable groups and therefore have no net charge
Pi |
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| How is the pK value defined? |
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| The point at which equal amts of two forms exist in solution |
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| Amino peptidase, Carboxy peptidase |
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