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What constitutes acid soluble pool? |
Micromolecules weighing 18-800 Dalton Ex:monosaccharides,disaccharides |
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What constitutes acid-insoluble pool? |
Macromolecules weighing over 10000 Dalton Ex:proteins,nucleic acid,polysaccharides and lipids |
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Why are lipids acid insoluble though being micromolecules? |
They are water insoluble |
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What is used for separating acid -soluble pool and acid -insoluble pool? |
Trichloroacetic acid(Cl3COOH) |
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What are biomolecules? |
All the carbon compounds in living tissues |
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What are amino acids? |
Organic compds Substituted methanes Alpha Carbon is attached to amino group,carboxyl group,hydrogen group and a variable R group(alkyl) |
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Why are amino acids so many types?20 types |
Bcoz of variable R group |
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Types of amino acids? |
Glysine-R group is H Alanine-R group is methyl Serine- R group is hydroxy methyl |
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What determines chemical and physical properties of amino acids? |
Amino group,carboxyl group and R group |
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What are the amino acids based on no. Of amino and carboxyl groups? |
Acidic-glutamic acid Basic-lysine Neutral-valine Aromatic-tyrosine,phenylalanine,tryptophan |
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What is zwitter ion? |
Isoelectric |
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How does the structure of amino acid changes? |
In different ph |
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Continued notes |
In papercraft book's biology section |
