JEE Main Chemistry question

[J & K CET 2007] Polypeptides having molecular weights above 10000 are known as

(A)Amino acids
(B)Hormones
(C)ProteinsCorrect
(D)Terminal amino acids

Answer: (C)

Solution

By convention, a polypeptide chain is classified as a protein once its molecular weight exceeds roughly 10,000 (reflecting a sufficiently long chain of amino acid residues with defined three-dimensional structure). Below this

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