What is the principle of macromolecular organization?
What are the biological function of proteins?
What is the basic structure of an amino acid?
How many amino acids are commonly found in proteins?
How many different classes of amino acid are there?
The answer has to do with non-covalent bonds.
What are the non-covalent bonds?
What are the functional groups giving rise to the non-covalent bonds?
Now, how many different classes of amino acid are there?
And what are they?
Why do amino acids all have the same properties?
Why do amino acids all have different properties?
What are the properties shared by all amino acids?
Why do amino acids have optical properties?
What is the structural feature that bestows optical properties?
Which amino acid does not have optical properties?
How many titratable protons do amino acids contain?
What does the titration curve look like?
Why do amino acids all have different properties?
What are examples of modified amino acids?
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