Miscellaneous proteins
General facts about proteins
Protein folding
Nucleic Acids
Nitrogenous bases
100
A polymer made of monomers called amino acids
What is a polypeptide?
100
The numbers of amino acids in our bodies.
What is twenty?
100
The primary level of structure of a protein.
What is a polypeptide?
100
the nucleic acid monomer.
What is a nucleotide?
100
The bond that connects two nitrogenous bases from complementary DNA strands.
What is a hydrogen bond?
200
Two amino acids bonded together
What is a dipeptide?
200
amino acids that are attracted to water.
What are hydrophilic amino acids?
200
Polypeptides with beta pleated sheets and alpha helix formations.
What is the secondary level of protein structure?
200
the nucleic acid polymer.
What is a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA).
200
Complementary base pairing.
What is A always pairs with T and C always pairs with G?
300
What makes an amino acid different from another.
What is the R group?
300
Four different types of proteins.
What are structural, immune system, protein hormones, and transporter proteins?
300
A protein that is fully functional and completely folded.
What is the tertiary level of structure?
300
A usually double stranded polynucleotide.
What is DNA?
300
The nitrogenous base not found in RNA.
What is Thymine?
400
It determines the proper sequence of amino acids in a primary polypeptide.
What is DNA?
400
The two chemical components from where a protein monomer get its name.
What is the amino group and the carboxylic acid group?
400
Proteins made of two or more completely functional and folded polypeptides.
What is the quaternary level of structure?
400
A nucleotide that only has the nitrogenous base adenine.
What is ATP?
400
Parts of a nucleotide that make the strand.
What are the pentacarbon sugar (deoxyribose or ribose) and the phosphate group (sugar-phosphate backbone)?
500
Aquaporin and sodium potassium proteins channels are examples of these types of proteins.
What are transporter proteins?
500
The five components of an amino acid.
What is the amino group, the carboxyl group, the center carbon atom , the hydrogen atom, and the R group?
500
What causes the folding of proteins.
What is the interaction between the R groups?
500
The three components of an ATP nucleotide.
What are the three phosphate groups, a pentacarbon sugar ( ribose), and a nitrogenous base (adenine)?
500
the bond that connects a sugar from one nucleotide to the sugar of another nucleotide.
What is a phosphodiester bond?
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