(a) What is amino acid? Explain the function (or status) of an amino acid at pH 3 and 9. (b) What is the activation energy of a chemical reaction? Draw and explain an energy diagram of an exothermic reaction in terms of transition state theory.

(a) What is amino acid? Explain the function (or status) of an amino acid at pH 3 and 9. (b) What is the activation energy of a chemical reaction? Draw and explain an energy diagram of an exothermic reaction in terms of transition state theory.

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(a) What is amino acid? Explain the function (or status) of an amino acid at pH 3
and 9.
(b) What is the activation energy of a chemical reaction? Draw and explain an
energy diagram of an exothermic reaction in terms of transition state theory.

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