UNIT 15: PROTEIN AND AMINO ACIDS

Question 1

What is Protein?

Answer 1

It is a chemical substance in foods made up of chains of amino acids.

Question 2

What is hormones?

Answer 2

It is a substances usually a protein or steroid produced by by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another.

Question 3

What is Immunoproteins?

Answer 3

They are blood proteins such as antibodies that play a role in the functioning of the immune system.

Question 4

Function of Protein

Answer 4

• Repair and maintain organ
  and tissue damage
  -key role in nitrogen balance
  -Maintain body fluid balance

Question 5

What is Amino acid?

Answer 5

They are building block of protein which contain nitrogen.

Question 6

Two type of Amino acids

Answer 6

1. Essential amino acids: Consist of nine amino acids which our body cannot produce and must be obtain from diet.
2. Non-essential amino acids: Consists of eleven amino acids which our body can produce.

Question 7

Red blood cell and fibrin

Answer 7

primarily made from protein

Question 8

Two type of Proteins

Answer 8

1. Complete protein: Contain all of essential amino acids needed to support growth and tissue maintenance.
2. Incomplete protein: are deficient in one or more essential amino acids.

Question 9

Kwashiorkor(Protein deficiency)

Answer 9

is a form of severe protein-energy malnutrition in young children