Here are two questions you should be able to answer from Chapter 2 of your Lippincott, 4th edition:

1) If a dipeptide had a glutamine residue on the N- end and a valine residue on the C- end, what would it's name be?

2) If a dipeptide had a glutamate residue on the N- end and a valine residue on the C- end, what would it's name be?

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hey,

are the final exams prepared in house or are the shelf NMBE retired exams? and what is the policy pertaining to final exams; like biochem for example...how much is the final worth? etc...

thank you for any light you may be able shed on this

The exams are prepared in house. The current computation for the final grade is:
1st block exam: 25%
2nd block exam: 25% ("midterm")
3rd block exam: 35% ("final")
quizzes: 15%

The formula changes every semester, with the result that a student who fails this semester might have passed last semester. Last semester the formula was:
1st block exam: 20%
2nd block exam: 20%
3rd block exam: 30%
presentations: 15%
quizzes: 10%
attendance: 5%

The attendance rules change every semester also, regardless of whether they figure into the grade computation. It has varied from 50% to 90%; it is currently 80%. Enforcement is variable, as is the nature of examinations. A student may pass with one teacher but fail with another. This is the way it is in all colleges, which is why there should be standardized exams for everything, but that won't happen until all schools enter the computer age.

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hhahaha.. I dont know....

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are these the type of questions you're getting in biochem? you'll never see that on the shelf or USMLE

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I'm surprised that a Super Moderator of your renown could be so dense. You obviously don't "get it", but you might have "gotten it" if you had looked in the referenced section of Lippincott and tried to answer the questions. Since you probably won't do that, I'll spell it out for you: if you follow the peptide naming rules stated in Lippincott, you would arrive at the same name for both compounds in my questions, which exposes an ambiguity in the naming rules. It isn't Lippincott who is at fault; IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), the naming police for the chemical world, has a set of rules -- available online -- for the naming of peptides, which is correctly reflected in Lippincott, so it is IUPAC which has made an error in its rules.

You are correct; we'll never see questions like this on the shelf or USMLE. My post wasn't intended to do that, but to see if anyone besides myself is paying attention to anything at all in these medical books that takes one beyond the rote memorization of meaningless factoids to get through an exam with no understanding of anything whatsoever. Apparently there are no such people.

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