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Lesson: Chapter 1 — The Chemical Basis of Life

1.2. Proteins 2 of 12

Question 2

Which element is present in some proteins but not in all of them?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Sulphur (S). It appears in some proteins and is absent from others.

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are the four that are always there. Sulphur is the optional fifth — which is why the mineral salt table lists sulphur as being found "in proteins".

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