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1. What are the major roles of proteins in living things?
2. How many naturally existing amino acids are there?
3. In what way are different amino acids similar? In what way are they different?
4. What is meant by the expression: protein structure is hierarchical?
5. What are the four levels of protein structure?
6. Why is the function of a protein dependent on its primary structure?
7. What types of chemical bonds stabilize (are responsible for) the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure of proteins?
8. The shape of a protein is termed its _____________________.
9. What is denaturing and how does it affect the function of a protein? What can cause protein denaturing?
10. What are nucleic acids and what are their monomer subunits?
11. What are the two major classes of nucleic acids?