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What is the difference between amino group and amine?
An amine is basically an ammonia derivative where one or more hydrogen atoms has been replaced by an organic substituent (alkylic or aromatic group). When an amine is considered as...
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How is chirality related to amino acids?
Optical isomers have different biological properties, so one enantiomer can have a distinct taste while the other enantiomer can have the opposite taste. Also, enantiomers may not fit into the...
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What is the difference between Arrhenius, bronsted-lowry and Lewis acids and bases?
In Arrhenius, we are limited to cases in which water is the solvent (this is assumed by Arrhenius). An acid will dissolve in water to produce $H^+$ ions, while a...
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How does pKa affect amino acids?
$pK_a = -log_(10)(K_a)$ $K_a prop $ Acidic Strength of the amino acid
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What is the difference between a synodic period and a sidereal period? What is the difference between a synodic month and a sidereal month?
Lunar synodic month ( 29.53 days) is longer than the sidereal month (27.32 days ). Synodic month is the period between two consecutive transits of the revolving-about-Sun heliocentric longitudinal plane...
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How do amino acids react to water and oil?
By themselves, amino acids are fairly unreactive. They are diprotic and triprotic acids, and their only reactions in water are protonation and deprotonation. In oil, there is generally no reaction....
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How do hydrophobic amino acids and hydrophilic amino acids cause proteins to have a specific shape?
Amino acid chains have numerous amino acids in them. Some of them form alpha helicies, some for beta sheets - and these are examples of secondary structure. However, amino acids...
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How do you determine the $alpha$ and $omega$ ends in fatty acids? How do we get the $alpha$ and $omega$ series? And are MUFA's non-essential fatty acids?
Fatty acids have two "ends"; the carboxylic acid (COOH) group is on one end, and this carbon is designated as the $alpha$ (alpha) carbon. The other end of the molecule...
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Are MUFA (mono unsaturated fatty acids) non-essential fatty acids? If yes, then why?
An essential nutrient is one that the body cannot make itself, which is required for normal biological function... in this case, essential fatty acids are fatty acids that must be...
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Why can't the essential amino acids be produced in the body even though they are coded by the DNA?
Amino Acids are NOT coded for in our DNA: They are used as building blocks for the synthesised protein during Translation. The human body CAN synthesise some amino acids from...
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