What Do Ramachandran Plots Show

question 45

Multiple Choice

What do Ramachandran plots show?

• A) Only some And Angles are commonly found in proteins.
• B) The chiral carbon in amino acids is found largely in the S configuration.
• C) Peptide backbones form mostly linear chains.
• D) The -carbon is chiral.

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