Amino Acids Linked Together Fold into Shapes That Are Most

question 59

Multiple Choice

Amino acids linked together fold into shapes that are most chemically stable, so the proteins they make up have particular shapes. Why does this matter?

• A) It actually doesn't matter because the body can fix its own proteins, so they can do their job.
• B) If the proteins aren't the right shape, DNA can't translate them.
• C) If the proteins aren't the right shape, they don't fit down blood vessels.
• D) It actually doesn't matter because DNA will set up the proteins correctly regardless of the amino acids.
• E) If the proteins aren't the right shape, they can't do their job properly.

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Definitions:

Empirical Rules

Statistical rules that allow for the determination of probability within a normal distribution, stating percentages of data that lie within certain standard deviations from the mean.

Standard Deviations

Measures of how spread out the numbers in a dataset are, indicating the degree of variation from the mean.

Observations

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Negatively Skewed

A distribution shape where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution's peak, indicating that the bulk of the values are towards the right.