Protein + DNAstructure flash cards - Biochemistry MCQs Nov

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What is the pitch of an alpha helix?
0.54nm
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How many residues per turn in an alpha helix?
3.6
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Degrees each residue rotates in an alpha helix?
100 degrees
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The hydrogen bonds are between what number aa in the chain?
1st and 4th
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The N-terminus is at the ... of an alpha helix when drawn
bottom
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What points towards the N-terminus of an alpha helix?
N-H in hydrogen bonds
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What points towards the C-terminus of an alpha helix?
C-O in hydrogen bonds
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Residues point.... from the axis of an amino acid
away
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What is the translation per residue (increase in height per aa)?
0.15nm
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What is the conversion between A and nm?
1nm=10A / 1A=0.1nm as A are 10^-10
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What is considered the beginning of a polypeptide the N or C-terminus?
N-terminus
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What isomer of each amino acid is used and what is the rule to differentiate it?
L-isome, CORN rule to differentiate from D-isomer
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What is the central carbon often called in an amino acid?
alpha carbon
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What is the N-terminus and C-terminus?
NH3+side /COO- side
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What form are aa in at physiological pH?
zwitterions.
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Is the DNA helix parallel or antiparallel?
Antiparallel, on strain is 5'-3' the other is 3'-5'
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What number are the carbons that make bonds to the nitrogenous base and the two phosphates
1',3',5'
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What do purines bind to?
Pyrimidines
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Are pyrimidines or purines 2 ring structures?
Purines are two ring structures. Pyrimidines are one ring structures.
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Which nitrogenous bases are purines/pyrimidines?
Pyrimidines- Cytosine and Thymine. Purines- Adenine and Guanine
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The DNA is a...
right handed double helix.
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what does a nucleoside consist of?
deoxyribose and nitrogenous base.
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Structure of phosphodiester bond
R-O-P(=O)-O-R.
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What is the diameter of the DNA double helix?
2nm
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How many bases(nucleotides) per turn? DNA
10
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How many nm per turn? DNA
3.4nm
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Each base has an angle rotation of?
36 degrees.
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Watson and Crick base pairing does not...
induce angles - the bases are like rungs of a ladder. Parallel to each other but perpendicular to the phosphodiester backbone
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Differentiate the bases
Adenine- has no C=0 Thymine has 2 C=0. Guanine has 1 C=0 Cytosine has 1 C=0
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How many carbons and hydrogen bonds are there involved in one beta turn?
4 carbons and one hydrogen bond between 1st and 4th aa.
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