Question

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

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.