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What are the four charged amino acids?
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Glutamic Acid, Lysine, Arginine, Aspartic Acid
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What are the six polar amino acids?
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Asparagine, Cysteine, Glutamine, Serine, Threonine, Tyrosine
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What are the ten hydrophobic amino acids?
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Alanine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Tryptophan, Valine
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Which amino acid is a neutral performer located on both outer hydrophilic regions of a protein and on inside hydrophobic regions of a protein?
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Alanine
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What is the first and second most widely used amino acids in protein synthesis?
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The first most used is leucine, the second is L-Alanine
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The ∝-carbon atom is in bound with a methyl group (CH3), making this molecule simple and aliphatic (having an open chain)
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Alanine
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The smallest amino acids which rotates easily and adds flexibility to the protein chain is what?
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Glycine
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In a protein chain is a lot of flexibility desired or undesired?
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undesired.
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Bone collagen is one third of which amino acid?
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Glycine
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