Functional Groups
Amino Acids
Practice Questions
Amino Acids
Bonus
100

What is the structural makeup of a carbonyl

What is a double bonded carbon to oxygen

100
How many amino acids are there
20
100

1

Lysosome

100

What are aromatic and aliphatic molecules both made up of?

Hydrocarbons

100

White blood cells engulf bacteria through what process?

Phagocytosis

200

What is the main characteristic of carboxyl and why is it that?

What is acidic because the hydrogen disassociates with the oxygen
200

What are the amino acids that are hydrophobic 

Valine

Methionine 

Alanine

Glycine 

Isoleucine

Leucine

200

2

High energy phosphates

200
What amino acids are polar, uncharged
Threonine

serine

glutamine

cysteine 

asparagine 

proline

200

2

by increasing the percentage of unsaturated phospholipids in the membrane

300

What is one of the main characteristics for an Amino 

What is basic or positively charged
300
What is one characteristic of aromatic amino acids

Stable, Hydrophobic, unsaturated, solvent to non polar, low reactivity 

300

3

lysosome

300

What are the two negatively charged amino acids

Glutamic Acid

Aspartic acid


300

3

They move laterally along the plane

400

What is the difference between ketone and aldehyde 

Aldehyde can be easily oxidized due to the hydrogen while ketones do not have hydrogen and cannot be oxidized as easily

400

What amino acids have aromatic r groups

Phenylalanine

Tyrosine

Tryptophan



400

4

Prokaryotes/ mitochondria

400

Is this aliphatic or aromatic

Aliphatic
400

4

A cell's ability to identify neighboring cells

500

What is one of the main characteristics of Sulfhydryl, why, and what does it form

Di-sulfide bridges

It is polar 

500

What amino acids have positively charged R groups

Arginine

Histidine

Lysine



500

5

serine

500

What characteristic applies to Valine

nonpolar, aliphatic 

500

5

NA out of cell

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