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  • ICAR and TNAU E-Course Summarized

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  • Which of the following natural amino acid is optically inactive?

    Question: Which of the following natural amino acid is optically inactive?

    Options:

    alanine
    glycine
    valine
    aspartic acid

    Concept-
    -All proteins are polymers of α-amino acids.
    -Amino acids contain amino (–NH2 ) and carboxyl (–COOH) functional groups.
    -Depending upon the relative position of the amino group with respect to a carboxyl group, the amino acids can be classified as α, β, γ, δ, and so on.
    -Only α-amino acids are obtained on hydrolysis of proteins.
    -They may contain other functional groups also.
    Explanation-
    -Glycine is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.
    -An optically inactive substance is a substance that does not have optical activity (a substance that does not rotate the plane of plane-polarized light).
    -Almost all the natural amino acids except glycine are optically inactive because glycine does not have a chiral carbon in its structure.

    🔴Additional Information:
    Alanine
    -It is a non-essential amino acid.
    -Alanine is an α-amino acid that is consumed in the biosynthesis of proteins
    Valine
    -Valine is an aliphatic and extremely hydrophobic essential amino acid in humans related to leucine.
    -Valine is found in many proteins, mostly in the interior of globular proteins helping to determine the three-dimensional structure.
    Aspartic acid
    -Aspartic acid is a non-essential amino acid in humans.
    It has codons GAC and GAU.

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