Secondary structure of a protein refers to
  • A
    Mainly denatured proteins and structures of prosthetic groups
  • B
    Three dimensional structure, specially the bond between amino acid residues that are distant from each other in the polypeptide chain
  • C
    Linear sequence of amino acid residues in the polypeptide chain
  • D
    Regular folding patterns of continuous portions of the polypeptide chain
AIPMT 1995, Medium
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