What Methods Can Be Used for the Identification of Amino

question 38

Multiple Choice

What methods can be used for the identification of amino acids?

• A)Amino acid analyzer using cation-exchange resin
• B)Cation-exchange resin packed column in an HPLC instrument
• C)Column chromatography on normal phase silica gel
• D)Reaction with ninhydrin followed by IR spectroscopy
• E)Two of these choices.

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistics

A branch of statistics that allows one to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample.

Type I Error

Deciding wrongly that there was a significant result when in fact there was not.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Normal Curve

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where most values cluster around the mean.