what is an allosteric site?

Q: What is a a polypeptide?

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Q: Why is it 2n-2?

A: A molecule is called chiral molecules if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any of A…

Q: What are conjugate proteins? How are the classified?

A: Proteins are the building blocks of a body and play viral role in providing structure to cell and…

Q: What is The crucial role of base pairing betweencodon and anticodon?

A: The triplet code expresses the genetic information that is transcribed into mRNA. The tRNA translate…

Q: What is a homotropic effect? What is a heterotropic effect?

A: Enzymes are biological catalysts. They enhance the rate of a reaction withou

Q: What is the terminator?

A: Deoxy ribonucleic acid (DNA) is the genetic material of most organisms that carry coded genetic…

Q: Why are there nucleotides (A, T, G, and C) in the master mix? What are the other components of the…

A: PCR is a technique that results in exponential amplification of a selected region of a DNA molecule…

Q: What is is the addition of one or more nucleotide pairs?

A: Mutation is defined as the alteration in the nucleotide sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that…

Q: What are the base-pairing rules for RNA?

A: Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in different biological roles such as…

Q: What is the difference between a heteroglycan and ahomoglycan? Give examples.

A: glycan means a polysaccharides

Q: Which is the most deleterious type of amino acid substitution? Explain.

A: Amino acid substitutions are due to mutations in the the DNA that codes for the mRNA.  These…

Q: what is the N and C terminal AA residue?

A: DNA sequencing is a biochemical method for determining the order of the nucleotide bases, adenine,…

Q: What are allosteric enzymes?

A: Specific regions of the enzymes which acts as the binding sites for the substrate is called as an…

Q: What are the possible phosphorylation sites in a target protein?

A: Protein phosphorylation It is defined as the process of reversible post translational modification…

Q: What is the role of endonuclease enzyme ?

A: Several enzymes are involved in all the biochemical reactions happening in the body. These enzymes…

Q: What are The Effects of Mutations on Polypeptides?

A: The mutation is the alteration of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that could occur due to change in one…

Q: What is endonuclease enzyme ?

A: An enzyme is the substance, biological catalyst in living organism which accelerate chemical…

Q: What is known as polyadenylation signal sequence ?

A: The central dogma of molecular biology briefs that DNA has instructions to synthesise proteins which…

Q: what is the pI for lysine?

A: PI is the isoelectric point of the amino acid where it is the pH of the molecule where the net…

Q: Adenine is a niterogenous base or nucleosides?

A: Adenine is a important component of nucleic acids . It is a type of purine. It contains 5 nitrogen…

Q: What is terminator structure ?

A: Introduction: When DNA is transcribed into a newly generated string of mRNA, it is translated into…

Q: What is the relationship between x-d-glucose or β-d-glucose? Are they mirror images?

A: Glucose is a sugar (monosaccharide) It possesses 3 carbon atoms and 1 aldehyde group. Therefore it…

Q: What factors account for the high phosphoryl-transfer potential of nucleoside triphosphates?

A: A nucleotide triphosphate is an organic molecule which contains a nitrogen base attached to pentose…

Q: What are pyrimidine dimers ?

A: Nucleic acids are macromolecules comprised of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus.…

Q: What is a thymine (pyrimidine) dimer and what creates it?

A: Question - What is a thymine (pyrimidine) dimer and what creates it?

Q: What are isoforms, ?

A: The genetic material essential information:It is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid. Except…

Q: How are the deoxyribonucleotides formed?

A: A nucleotide that contains deoxyribose is called a deoxyribonucleotide. They are monomeric units of…

Q: What is paramutation? What are the key features of this phenomenon?

A: The interaction of the alleles residing in the same locus and one of the alleles is capable of…

Q: What is a nucleotide triplet?

A: “Nucleotides” are the “building blocks” of the “genetic material” (DNA and RNA). They are composed…

Q: What is the relationship between (R)-cysteine and (S)-alanine?

A: Amino acids (except for glycine) have a chiral carbon atom adjacent to the carboxyl group, which…

Q: what is Thymine dimer?

A: Pyrimidine is one of two classes of heterocyclic nitrogenous bases present in the nucleic acid of…

Q: Why is a methylated base employed in DNA and not in RNA?

A: DNA and RNA are the two types of nucleic acids. Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is present in all…

Q: What is the significance of the pentose monophosphate shunt to synthesis of nucleotides?

A: We’ll answer the first question since the exact one wasn’t specified. Please submit a new question…

Q: What is the pI for histidine?

A: Histidine is an essential amino acid that cannot be synthesized by the body and needs to be…

Q: Considering prokaryotes, what is the term for the triplet of nucleotides that codes for an amino…

A: Asked : Term for the triplet of nucleotides that codes for an amino acid

Q: What are Okazaki fragments? Why are they formed?

A: DNA replication is the process by which double-stranded DNA is copied to produce two identical…

Q: What does polycistronic mean?

A: Given: What does polycistronic mean?

Q: What is the effect of the altered amino acid sequence in Hb S that causes the cells to form sickle…

A: Introduction: Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder in which the shape of red blood cells…

Q: What is the structural difference between the pentose sugars in DNA and RNA?

A: Pentose sugar is a five carbon molecule numbered as 1', 2', 3', 4' and 5'. When the functional…

Q: What is the Shine-Dalgarno sequence?

A: The process of protein synthesis involves various components like mRNA, tRNA, release factors, and…

Q: What is AP endonuclease ?

A: Introduction Enzymes are biological catalysts that are proteins. Chemical reactions are sped up with…

Q: What is the essence of complementary base pairing?

A: Complementary base pairing is the phenomenon where in a molecule of DNA, guanine always binds to…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.