Amino Acids

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1. Which of the following amino acids is the smallest of all amino acids? Alanine Serine Valine Glycine

2. Which of the following amino acids can form a special covalent bond called a disulfide bond? Methionine Tyrosine Lysine Cysteine

3. Which of the following amino acids is actually an imino acid? Alanine Proline Tryptophan Glutamic acid

4. Which of the following amino acids is the largest of all the amino acids? Tryptophan Histidine Tyrosine Glutamic acid

5. Which of the following amino acids is NOT positively charged? Lysine Histidine Arginine Aspartic acid

6. The three letter abbreviation "asn" corresponds to which amino acid? Aspartic acid Asparagine Arginine Alanine

7. Of amino acids abbreviated "Lys", "Glu", "Trp", and "Gln", which is a basic amino acid with a positive charge? Lysine Tryptophan Glutamic acid Glutamine

8. Which of the following amino acids' side chains is a single methyl group? Valine Isoleucine Leucine Alanine

9. Which two of the following amino acids could form a ionic bond? Glutamic acid and Valine Aspartic acid and Lysine Arginine and Glutamine Proline and Glycine

10. Which of the following amino acid(s) are polar? Serine Arginine Tyrosine All of these