Test I: ESSAY

Directions: Answer the following questions in essay form. Your essay should be well organized, explained,
and carefully written.
1. What is the general name for the building blocks (monomers) from which a protein (polymer) is made?
2. What percent of a cell’s overall mass is accounted for by proteins?
3. Approximately how many different proteins are present in a typical human cell?
Rubric:
3 2 1
Relevance of the Answer is complete, sufficient Answer is brief with Answer is incomplete. Excessive
answer to the question. detail provided to support insufficient detail. Unrelated discussion of unrelated issues
assertions; answer focuses only issues were introduced and/or and/or significant errors in
on issues related to the minor errors in content. content.
questions, factually correct.
Mechanics of writing Clear, readable, prose, good Frequent problems with Major problems with mechanics
(spelling, punctuation, source of transitions; no mechanics of language; of language awkward sentence
grammar, clarity, of problems with spelling, occasional awkward constructions. Poor or absent
prose). punctuations, or grammar. sentences and poor transitions; frequently difficult
transitions, reduce readability. to understand.
Test II: Identification
Directions: Answer the following questions in essay form. Your essay should be well organized, explained,
and carefully written.
1. It’s a naturally occurring, unbranched polymer in which the monomer units are amino acids.
2. This is a type protein in which only one peptide chain is present.
3. This is a type of protein in which more than one peptide chain is present.
4. This is a protein that has one or more non-amino acid entities present in its structure in addition to one or
more peptide chains.
5. It is a non-amino acid group present in a conjugated protein.
6. This is the arrangement in space adopted by the backbone portion of a protein.
7. An order in which amino acids are linked together in a protein.
8. The overall three-dimensional shape of a protein that results from the interactions between amino acid
side chains (R groups) that are widely separated from each other within a peptide chain.
9. This are large molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
10. This form structural framework of various parts of the body.
11. It functions as hormones that regulate various physiological processes
12. This Control growth and development
13. It allows shortening of muscle cells, which produces movement.
14. This aid responses that protect body against foreign substances and invading pathogens
15. It carries vital substances throughout the body.
16. It acts as enzymes that regulate biochemical reactions.
17. An example of this is collagen in bone and other connective tissues; keratin in skin, hair, and fingernails
18. An example of this are myosin and actin.
19. These are the antibodies.
20. One of the examples of this is hemoglobin that transport most oxygen and some carbon dioxide in blood.