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1. Which of the following is a non-essential sulfur-containing amino acid?
2. Which of these amino acids has an acidic side chain, where a carboxyl group is brought about from a gamma carbon?
3. Which of the following aromatic amino acids was first produced by Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Sydney Cole in 1901, through the trypsin-induced digestion of casein?
4. Which of the following aromatic amino acids contains an imidazole group: a planar five-membered ring with two nitrogen atoms?
5. All codons with uracil and cytosine as the first and second bases, respectively, are translated to which amino acid?
6. Which of the following is set apart from other amino acids for containing a secondary alpha amino group?
7. Which of the following is set apart from other amino acids for containing a non-stereogenic alpha carbon?
8. Among the following choices - isoleucine, methionine, phenylalanine, and valine - which is aromatic in structure?
9. Among the amino acids with basic side chains, the side chain of which amino acid has a pKa of around 12.48, making itself the most basic?
10. Which of the following is a polar amino acid that is the last discovered proteinogenic amino acid, first isolated in the 1930s?
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