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MyResources A Level Biology Notes Polypeptides What type of reaction forms a dipeptide from two amino acids? A condensation reaction. What types of bonds stabilise the tertiary structure of a protein? Hydrogen…
Read guide →The building blocks of proteins are amino acids, which are small organic molecules that consist of an alpha (central) carbon atom linked to an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a variable com…
Read guide →From a chemical point of view, proteins are by far the most structurally complex and functionally sophisticated molecules known. This is perhaps not surprising, once one realizes that the structure and chemist…
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