1. Simplest protein is protamine which is
antidote for heparin.
2. Simplest amino acid is glycine.
3. Proteins contain 0.16 g of nitrogen
4. Source of ammonia - Glutathione
5. Haemoglobin contains rich sources of
histidine.
6. Amino acid excreted in urine in
pregnancy - Histidine
7. Amino acids excreted in cystinuria are
cystine arginine, lysine and ornithine.
8. Substances synthesised from tyrosine
9. Amino acids involved in area formation
one ornithine, arginine citrulline.
10. Some metabolic disorders of amino acid
11. Urea cycle is also called Kreb's
Hanslet's cycle or ornithine cycle.
12. Protein which is not an antigen is
gelatine.
13. Amino acids involved in creatinine
metabolism are arginine, glycine and ornithine.
14. Serotonin and niacin are formed from
tryptophan. For every 60 mg of tryptophan, 1mg of niacin is obtained.
15 Phenylketonuria, tyrinosis, alkaptonuria
and albinism are all metabolic defects involving phenylalanine and tyrosine.
16. Essential amino acids are threonine,
valine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, methionine, tryptophan arginine,
phenylamine and histidine.
17. The number of net ATP produced from one
molecule of glutamic acid is 25 ATP.