Proteins

Introduction

I am sure you have heard of protein before, but do you really know what are they? In this WebQuest you are about to learn what are proteins and what they are made of. With this WebQuest you can learn something new or maybe just revise the information you already knew before. 

During this WebQuest you will watch a video about basic information about protein. Pay close attention to this video and complete the given tasks.

Best of luck ! 

Task

Watch the given video and work individually.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jgb_DpaQhM

 

After watching the video, answer the given questions at the section "Process".

Write down your answers in your notebook. You can watch this video a second time after reading the given questions if you missed some of the answers.

After you are done, check your answer at the section "Evolution". 

Process

According to the video you just watched answer the following questions. (You get 1 point for every correct answer)

1. What are the building blocks of protein ?

2. How many Amino Acids we use in life ?

3. Name one of the basic Amino Acids.

4. How many similar parts all Amino Acids have ?

5. What does it means "polar'' ? 

6. Why Alanine is ''non polar'' ?

7. When we can call polypeptide a protein ?

8. How many levels are to a structure to a protein ?

9. Which structure is going to be straight ?

Evaluation

 Check your answers :

1. Amino Acids

2. 20

3. Alanine, Aspartic Acid, Lysine, Glutamine or Threonine.

4. 3

5. That means the water will be attracted to you. It is going to have a charge. 

6. Because it has metal group. 

7. Once it is folded is specific shape. 

8. 4 levels 

9. Primary structure 

Conclusion

Good job ! You are done.  Thank you for using my WebQuest as a learning material ! 

Your results should define your grade.

If you have more than 6 points you listened carefully and paid really good attention to all the details. 

If you have 4 - 6 points you missed some information. 

If you have less than 4 points you need to pay attention. 

 

Hope it helped you to understand more about proteins!

 

 

Credits

This Web Quest should be used for training purposes. You can use this information in the future while being a biology, chemestry teacher or any profession that includes knowing about health and humans body.

Protein is under topic  '' Natural substances ''. For more information search it under this topic.

 

Learning material is taken from https://www.youtube.com . 

 

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