1. What is amino acid ?
2. Why learn these structures and properties?
3. Which is the smallest amino acid?
4. What is special about proline?
5. What is special about glycine?
6. What is special about cysteine?
7. Which amino acids have highest codons?
8. Which, if any, amino acids are achiral?
9. Which, if any, amino acids have an R configuration?
10. Which, if any, amino acids have no 1º-amine functions?
11. Which, if any, amino acids have more than one stereogenic center?
12. Which amino acid has the highest pI?
13. Which amino acid has the lowest pI?
14. Which is the largest standard amino acid?
15. Which is the most acidic standard amino acid?
16. Which standard amino acid contains an unusual carbon nitrogen bond making it an imino acid?
17. Which standard amino acid is the best buffer under physiological conditions where pH = 7.0?
18. Which standard amino acid has the longest aliphatic side chain branched at the beta carbon?
19. Which standard amino acid can covalently dimerize spontaneously?
20. What is the C-terminal amino acid of the following peptide - Met-Ile-Val-Glu-Gln-Tyr-Phe-Trp-Asp?
21. Which amino acid in the following peptide sequence -- Met-Ile-Leu-Glu-Gly-Gln-Tyr-Phe-Trp-Asp -- is the most flexible in terms of sterically allowed conformations?
22. Which amino acid is the least flexible in terms of sterically allowed conformations?
23. In the following peptide sequence -- C-D-V-N-Q-P-F-W-E -- the R-group of which amino acid is likely to be the most chemically reactive at physiological pH = 7.0?
24. Which two amino acids have the same Isoelectric point?