AA, peptides, proteins

Question 1

What are Conditional essential?

Answer 1

AA that can’t be made but in the body but aren’t ones that are necessarily needed.

Question 2

what does it mean to be ketogenic?

Answer 2

Can produce Acetyl CoA

Question 3

What does it mean to be glycogenic?

Answer 3

add to the Krebs cycle

Question 4

What group of AA are both keto and glycogenic?

Answer 4

Leu, Lys, Pheny, Tryptophan, Tyrosine

Question 5

What AA has the numeric designation system?

Answer 5

Histidine

Question 6

Which AA does not have an L or a D conformation?

Answer 6

Glycine

Question 7

What are the non polar AA?

Answer 7

Glycine, alanine, proline, Valine, leucine,, isoleucine, methionine.

Question 8

What are the aromatic AA?

Answer 8

Phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan

Question 9

What are the polar uncharged AA?

Answer 9

Serine, Threonine, Cysteine, asparagine, glutamine

Question 10

What are the positively charged AA groups?

Answer 10

Lysine, Arginine, Histidine

Question 11

What are the negatively charged AA?

Answer 11

Aspartate and glutamate

Question 12

What 2 uncommon AA are important for collagen formation?

Answer 12

4-hydroxyproline and 5-Hydroxylisine

Question 13

What AA are present during bad breath?

Answer 13

Ornithine and citrulline

Question 14

When does the isoelectric point occur?

Answer 14

When the net charge of the AA is 0.

Question 15

Which AA is swapped out of the sequence to give the structure of a sickle shape in blood?

Answer 15

Valine, the incorrect AA, is inserted in place of Glutamine.