Team Round

Team Round

Instructions: Please answer all parts of the question below. Your responses will be recorded for evaluation.

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Question: To study for a biochemistry exam, your friend uses Wolfram Alpha to generate the titration curve of a mystery amino acid. Answer the following questions about the titration.

a. What amino acid was titrated above?
b. What is happening to the Hydrogen ion concentration as the base is added?
c. What is the approximate equivalent OH at which the average charge is -1.5?
d. What is the approximate equivalent OH at the Isoelectric point, and what condition defines this point (what is true and only true at this point)?
e. Name three other amino acids that could have three separate pKa values: