Amino Acid

What is the dangerous byproduct of breaking down amino acids?

What is the term for the transfer of an amino group which create glutamate?

• Deamination

• Transamination

• Transferase

According to the Fates of Alpha-keto acid, each amino acid that you start with can become either Acetyl CoA, Oxaloacetate, Succinyl CoA, Pyruvate, etc. depending on what is needed.

• True

• False

What is the family of enzymes that break down proteins into their amino acid constituents?

What is important about glutamine?

Answer explanation

Turning glutamate into glutamine will add another amino group and allow the safe transportation of 2 ammonia to the liver

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

Non polar amino acid with aliphatic R group, EXCEPT:

• L

• V

• I

• F

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

Chiral molecules are molecules with four non-identical functional group attached to the central atom. Which in the structure below is the only ACHIRAL amino acid?

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The amino acid that is considered as a precursor for dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenalin), and epinephrine (adrenaline)

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Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

In an acid-base reaction, the following statements are true, EXCEPT:

• Low pH: All acid groups are protonated

• Low pH: All amino groups protonated

• High pH: All acid groups are protonated

• Neutral pH: All amino groups are protonated

Name the peptide N-C-W

• Tryptophylcysteinylasparagine

• Asparaginylcysteinyltryptophan

• Asparagylcysteyltryptophyl

• Asparagylcysteinyltryptophan

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1