Carboxyl

... add hydroxyl and you get tyrosine. Add imidazole and you get histidine. With the largest system you get tryptophan ;) For the acidic AAs, just add carboxyl to Ala and you get aspartic acid. Since G lutamic acid is later in alphabet, it is longer by one carbon. The amides are just likewise. The ...

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1) Oxaloacetate is a compound (C4O5) in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, it is an isomer of Malate, after the action of Malate Dehydrogenase or Pyruvate Carboxylase, and is a compund which has been formed (sometimes oxaloacetate, sometimes acetyl, ...

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... exists if multiple polypeptides bind together to form a functional protein The answer choices are: Alpha helix or beta-pleated sheet structure carboxyl Quaternary Structure Amino 3 dimensional shape Polypeptides Hydrolysis Tertiary Structure Carbonyl Peptide Ionic Primary Structure Secondary ...

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I have to predict the positions of the glucose molecule that would become labeled from the 1-14C pyruvate (i.e, the label in the carboxyl group of pyruvate). a) Carbon-1 b) carbon-2 c) carbon-3 d) carbon-4 e) carbon-5 d) carbon-6 I first thought that carbons 1 and 6 were the correct answers, ...

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4) True. Neutral fats contain COOH at the end of their chain. Deffinitelly not! He was asking about lipids, not carboxylic acids and lipids has no free carboxyl group. Obviously, he just put true behind everything to "show his work" and didn't care much and you gave ...

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