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| How are polypeptides built? |
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| from amino acid monomers during condensation reactions. |
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| When does a primary protein become a secondary protein? |
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| When a basic chain of amino acids in a polypeptide folds and becomes a 3D structure |
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| When does a secondary protein become a tertiary protein? |
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Definition
| Ionic bonds and disulfide bridges |
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| What is the quaternary structure of a protein? |
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Definition
| two or more linked polypeptides. |
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| How many different kinds of proteins are there? |
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| What is the difference between a fibrous and globular protein? |
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Definition
| Fibrous are long, straight fibre-like. Globular are roundish, tangled, circular-ish. |
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| what is the protein Immunoglobulin |
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Definition
| A large protein (antibody) produced by the immune system to fight infection |
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| What is the protein collagen |
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Definition
| A structural protein which builds muscle, tendons, ligaments and the skin of vertebrates |
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| the destruction of the complex structure of a protein (secondary, tertiary, quaternary proteins) like what happens when an fried egg is made because the proteins denaturate making the egg white white and solid-ish. |
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