Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 11

Telling Them Apart. For each of the following pairs of molecules, specify a property that would distinguish between them, and indicate two different chemical tests or assays that could be used to make that distinction:
(a)The protein insulin and the DNA in the gene that encodes insulin
(b)The DNA that encodes insulin and the messenger RNA for insulin
(c)Starch and cellulose
(d)Amylose and amylopectin
(e)The monomeric protein myoglobin and the tetrameric protein hemoglobin
(f)A triacylglycerol and a phospholipid with a very similar fatty acid content
(g)A glycolipid and a sphingolipid
(h)A bacterial cell wall polysaccharide and chitin