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Amino Acids and Proteins.
Model 1. Protein is present on every nutrition label, and part of many of the foods we eat. Eggs are rich in protein, so are all types of meats, even wheat flour is composed of 7-15% protein (the remaining ~70-80% is starch). The “protein” on a nutrition label represents a mixture of many different types of individual protein molecules (for a lesson on mixtures – see activity 3).
Any individual protein is a large molecule, which is sometime called a macromolecule. A protein is a macromolecule because it is comprised of smaller molecules known as amino acids joined together by covalent bonds.
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Figure 5.1. The anatomy of an amino acid
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1. Examine figure 5.1. What type of bonds
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2. After studying Figure 5.1, can you explain why this type of molecule is called an amino acid?
3. An amino acid could also be represented with either or both of the abbreviated structures shown below. Using the Draw tool or by inserting a shape, box the amino group amino group, star the alpha carbon and circle the carboxylic acid group.
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b. What is wrong with the notation in the incorrect version below? Why is it wrong?
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4. Amino Acids can also exist in the form shown below:
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How has the amino acid changed? Does it make sense that this form of the amino acid is called a zwitterion? (Zwitter is German for hybrid)
Model 2. In living things, there are 20 amino acids that are used to make most proteins. Some of those amino acids are shown below in Figure 5.2.
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Figure 5.2. Examples of amino acids.
5. Use the Draw tool or insert a shape to put a triangle around the amino group in each amino acid.
6. Use the Draw tool or insert a shape to put a circle around the carboxylic acid group in each amino acid.
7. Use the Draw tool or insert a shape
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