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How many of the given items listed in the box are heteropolymers with peptide bond as the linking bond between monomers?

Trypsin; RNA; Cellulose; Glycogen; Inulin; Collagen; Lecithin

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Important Questions on Biomolecules

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Which one of the following techniques is used for the detection of proteins?
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Which of the following is the least likely to be involved in stabilizing the three-dimensional folding of most proteins?
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Which one of the following is the most abundant protein in the animals?
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The activity of a certain protein is dependent on its phosphorylation. A mutation in its gene changed a single amino acid which affected the function of the molecule. Which amino acid change is most likely to account for this observation?
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Identify the functions of these proteins respectively:

List I List II
i) Trypsin A) Enables glucose transport into cells
ii) Receptor B) Enzymes
iii) Insulin C) Intercellular ground substance
iv) GLUT-4 D) Hormone 
v) Collagen E) Taste receptor
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Identify the basic amino acid from the following.
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Which of the following amino acids is NOT involved in gluconeogenesis?
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Which one of the pairs of amino acids contains two chiral centres?
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Match the following:

(a) Aquaporin (i) Amide
(b) Asparagine (ii) Polysaccharide
(c) Abscisic acid (iii) Polypeptide
(d) Chitin (iv) Carotenoids

Select the correct option:

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Which one of the following statements is wrong?
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Identify the statement which is incorrect.
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Amino acid analysis of two globular protein samples yielded identical composition per mole. Which one of the following characteristics is necessarily identical for the two proteins?
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Among the following, identify the zwitterionic form
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How many different proteins consisting of 100 amino acids can be formed from 20 different amino acids?
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In primary structure of protein, the protein thread showed helix with four amino acids S-C-Y-E and a naphthalene structure in amino acid Y. In such condition what will be the direction of helix and what are the positions of amino acids
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If the acidic, basic and hydrophobic residues of proteins are considered to be red, green and blue in colour, respectively, then a globular protein in aqueous solution would have
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Which one of the following amino acids is least likely to be in the core of a protein?
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Choose the CORRECT combination of statements given below related to cysteine residue in proteins.

i. Cysteine can be linked to tyrosine by S-O bond.

ii. Cysteine can be linked to another cysteine by S-S bond.

iii. Cysteine can complex with Zn2+.

iv. Cysteine can be linked to methionine by S-S bond
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Match the compounds of Column I with their functions in Column II.
  Column -I   Column -II
1 Trypsin p Fights infectious agents
2 GLUT-4 q Is an intercellular ground substance
3 Collagen r Works as an enzyme
4 Antibody s Enables glucose transport into cells
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Match the following

(a) Inhibitor of catalytic activity (i) Ricin
(b) Possess peptide bonds (ii) Malonate
(c) Cell wall material in fungi (iii) Chitin
(d) Secondary metabolite (iv) Collagen

Choose the correct option from the following