Which of the following organic molecules may have up to four levels of structure?

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Which of the following organic molecules may have up to four levels of structure?

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Shelby Sparks · Answer 1

Proteins have up to four levels of organic structure.

1. Primary structure - the linear arrangement of amino acids.

2. Secondary structure - areas of folding or coiling within a protein.

3. Tertiary structure - the final three dimensional structure of a protein.

4. Quaternary structure - non covalent associations that bind multiple polypeptides into a single larger protein. E. g. hemoglobin has four polymers, two alpha and two beta chains. They are non covalently bound to each other to form a single large protein - hemoglobin.