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2. Glycoproteins _______.
a. contain unbranched oligosaccharides
b. are small fraction of the total number of protein in a human cell
c. are always intracellular
d. have oligosaccharides covalently attached to aspartate residues
3. Oligosaccharides are _______.
a. are found in bacterial lipopolysaccharides
b. never found in mucins
c. never attached to hormones
d. classified as N- or O-linked when found in gangliosides
4. Lectins are found _______.
a. onliy in eukaryotes
b. only in blood
c. on the surface of hepatocytes
5. Lectins _____.
a. bind their ligands with relatively low specificity
b. prevent viruses from binding to their target cells
c. bind their ligands via multiple weak interactions
6. The _____ does not need to be determined in fully characterizing oligosaccharides and polysaccharides found in glycoproteins.
a. location of branch points
b. a-versus-B conficurations of linkages
c. amino acid sequence of the protein
d. sequence of monosaccharides
7. Cyclization of monosaccharides _______.
a. is irreversible
b. creates a and B epimers
c. is the reactionwhich forms hemiketals or hemiacetals
d. only accurs in hecoses