Given below are two statements: In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
- Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
- Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
- Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Answer
(3) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
Solution
Statement I is false: when a protein is imagined as a line, the left end is the first amino acid, the N-terminal amino acid, and the right end is the last amino acid, the C-terminal amino acid.
Statement II is true: adult human haemoglobin has 4 subunits — two of type and two of type.
Answer: (3)