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What are the chemical properties of proline?

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Small, hydrophobic residue which can act as a structure breaker, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of cysteine?

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Tiny, polar, hydrophobic residue which can form disulphide bridges

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What are the chemical properties of histidine?

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Aromatic, hydrophobic, charged, positive, polar, basic

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What are the chemical properties of isoleucine?

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Aliphatic, hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of methionine?

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hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of serine?

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Tiny, polar

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What are the chemical properties of valine?

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Hydrophobic, non-polar, aliphatic

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What are the chemical properties of alanine?

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Tiny, hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of glycine?

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Tiny, hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of leucine?

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aliphatic, hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of threonine?

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Small, hydrophobic, polar

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What are the chemical properties of phenylalanine?

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Aromatic, hydrophobic, non-polar

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What are the chemical properties of arginine?

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Positive, charged,

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What are the chemical properties of tyrosine?

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aromatic, hydrophobic, polar

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What are the chemical properties of tryptophan?

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aromatic, hydrophobic, polar

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What are the chemical properties of aspartate?

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small, negative, charged

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What are the chemical properties of Asparagine?

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Small, polar

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What are the chemical properties of glutamate?

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negative charge

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What are the chemical properties of Glutamine?

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Polar

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What are the chemical properties of lysine?

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positively charged, hydrophobic

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What are the abbreviations for cysteine?

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Cys, C

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What are the abbreviations for histidine?

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His, H

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What are the abbreviations for Isoleucine?

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Ile, I

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What are the abbreviations for Methionine?

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Met, M

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What are the abbreviations for serine?
Ser, S
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What are the abbreviations for valine?
Val, V
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What are the abbreviations for Alanine?
Ala, A
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What are the abbreviations for Glycine?
Gly, G
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What are the abbreviations for leucine?
leu, L
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What are the abbreviations for proline?
Pro, P
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What are the abbreviations for threonine?
Thr, T
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What are the abbreviations for phenylalanine?
Phe, F
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What are the abbreviations for arginine?
Arg, R
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What are the abbreviations for Tyrosine?
tyr, Y
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What are the abbreviations for tryptophan?
Trp, W
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What are the abbreviations for aspartate?
Asp, D
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What are the abbreviations for asparagine?
Asn, N
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What are the abbreviations for glutamate?
Glu, E
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What are the abbreviations for Lysine?
Lys, K
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
Proline Small, hydrophobic residue which can act as a structure breaker, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
cysteine Tiny, polar, hydrophobic residue which can form disulphide bridges
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
histidine Aromatic, hydrophobic, charged, positive, polar, basic
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
isoleucine Aliphatic, hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
methionine hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
serine Tiny, polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
valine Hydrophobic, non-polar, aliphatic
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
alanine Tiny, hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
glycine Tiny, hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
leucine aliphatic, hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
threonine Small, hydrophobic, polar,
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
phenylalanine Aromatic, hydrophobic, non-polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
arginine Positive, charged,
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
tyrosine aromatic, hydrophobic, polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
tryptophan aromatic, hydrophobic, polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
aspartate small, negative, charged
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
Asparagine Small, polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
glutamate negative charge
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
Glutamine Polar
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What is this amino acid and what are its properties?
lysine positively charged, hydrophobic
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What are the abbreviations for glutamine?
Gln, Q

Biosci 203- First 2 topics (7 decks)

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