proteins

Question 1

proteins are categorized by the function they form. name all 4 of them.

Answer 1

storage, structure, transport, catalysis

Question 2

all proteins are built from monomers called what?

Answer 2

amino acids

Question 3

there are how many different amino acids that can be arranged in a multitude of ways to construct the variety of proteins needed for life?

Answer 3

20 different amino acids

Question 4

what does an amino acid consist of?

Answer 4

an alpha carbon attached to a hydrogen atom, an R group, an amino group, and a carboxyl group

Question 5

amino acids differ only in what?

Answer 5

the type of R group that they include

Question 6

what does the R group give each protein? what can the R group vary from having?

Answer 6

its unique properties and can vary from having just 1 atom to complex ring structures

Question 7

how are polypeptides formed?

Answer 7

when the amino group of 1 amino acid is linked to the carboxyl group of another through a peptide bond

Question 8

how are polypeptides differentiated?

Answer 8

by the sequence of linked amino acids