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- REFLECT AND APPLY Draw Haworth projection formulas for dimers of glucose with the following types of glycosidic linkages: (a) A (14) linkage (both molecules of glucose in the form) (b) An ,(11) linkage (c) A (16) linkage (both molecules of glucose in the form)arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Comment on the energetics of protein folding in light of the information in this chapter.arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Would you expect cross-linking to play a role in the structure of polysaccharides? If so, how would the cross-links be formed?arrow_forward
- REFLECT AND APPLY Based on what you know about glycosidic bonds, propose a scheme for formation of covalent bonds between the carbohydrate and protein portions of glycoproteins.arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Why is the polysaccharide chitin a suitable material for the exoskeleton of invertebrates such as lobsters? What other sort of material can play a similar role?arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY A researcher claims to have discovered a variant form of glycogen. The variation is that it has very few branches (every 50 glucose residues or so) and that the branches are only three residues long. Is it likely that this discovery will be confirmed by later work?arrow_forward
- REFLECT AND APPLY You are in the process of determining the amino acid sequence of a protein and must reconcile contradictory results. In one trial, you determine a sequence with glycine as the N-terminal amino acid and asparagine as the C-terminal amino acid. In another trial, your results indicate phenylalanine as the N-terminal amino acid and alanine as the C-terminal amino acid. How do you reconcile this apparent contradiction?arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Pectin, which occurs in plant cell walls, exists in nature as a polymer of D-galacturonic acid methylated at car- bon 6 of the monomer. Draw a Haworth projection for a repeating disaccharide unit of pectin with one methylated and one unmeth- ylated monomer unit in (14) linkage.arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Why do amino acids other than methionine occur in the N-terminal position of proteins from eukaryotes?arrow_forward
- REFLECT AND APPLY Why is it advantageous that polysaccharides can have branched chains? How do they achieve this structural feature?arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY In lipid bilayers, there is an orderdisorder transition similar to the melting of a crystal. In a lipid bilayer in which most of the fatty acids are unsaturated, would you expect this transition to occur at a higher temperature, a lower temperature, or the same temperature as it would in a lipid bilayer in which most of the fatty acids are saturated? Why?arrow_forwardREFLECT AND APPLY Compare the information in the sequence of monomers in a polysaccharide with that in the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein.arrow_forward
- BiochemistryBiochemistryISBN:9781305961135Author:Mary K. Campbell, Shawn O. Farrell, Owen M. McDougalPublisher:Cengage Learning
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