Small town doctor Harold Abbott wants to design a quick test to look for the pre

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Small town doctor Harold Abbott wants to design a quick test to look for the presence of large quantities of monosaccharides, polysaccharides, or amino acids that may be present in some of his patients. What are some tests Dr. Abbott should examine, and why? What should Dr. Abbott look for during the results to see if patients have high quantities of these macromolecules? Colin Hart recently woke up from a coma, thanks to help of Andy Brown. Now that Colin is awake again, he wants to get back one of his favorite hobbies, lichen investigations, with his sister, Laynie. Colin is having trouble remembering information since waking up from the coma, so please help him figure out some good places to look for lichens on trees in Colorado. Which side of trees should have the greatest abundance of lichens? What about the greatest species diversity? Why?

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Polysaccharides can be found through Benedict's test, barfoed test, seliwanoff test. Amino acid sequences can be identified by nin hydrin test, xanthoproteic test.

Lichens are found abundantly on trunks, barks and twigs of bristlecone pine, colorado blue spruce, douglas fir, narrowleaf cottonwood, plains cottonwood since they are the places where they can stably reside to get sunlight.

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