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Q1. What is the basic structure of amino acids?
Q2. What is meant by the hydrophobic effect of nonpolar amino acids?
Q3. What is the main difference between amino acids with acidic side chains and those with basic side chains? Give examples
Q4. What is meant by amino acids isomers?
Q5. What is the basic structure of proteins?
Q6. How to name a small peptide formed of valine, glycine and leucine?
Q7. Describe the ?-Helix structure of proteins? And state the importance of hydrogen bonds?
Q8. What is the main difference between ?-helices and ?-sheets of proteins?
Q9. What is the importance of the disulfide bonds in the tertiary structure of proteins? And how are they formed?
Q10. How does the formation of hydrogen bonds and ionic bonds contribute to the stabilization of tertiary proteins?
Q11. What are enzymes? And why they are important?
Q12. What is the active site of an enzymes? And what is its function?
Q13. What is meant by the efficiency of enzymes?
Q14. What is meant by enzymes’ specificity?
Q15. What is holoenzyme? And how it is different from apoenzyme?
Q16. What is meant by the activation energy an enzymatic reaction? And what is the transition state?