4(a) Suggest a test you will use to show that a given food substance contains protein. (b)Show how you will use (i)Modified Gabriel’s Synthsis (ii)Streckers’s Synthesis to prepare phenylalanine in the laboratory.

4(a) Suggest a test you will use to show that a given food substance contains protein. (b)Show how you will use (i)Modified Gabriel’s Synthsis (ii)Streckers’s Synthesis to prepare phenylalanine in the laboratory.

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(b)Show how you will use
(i)Modified Gabriel’s Synthsis
(ii)Streckers’s Synthesis to prepare phenylalanine in the laboratory.

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