Chromatography of Amino Acids - Small Group Learning Kit

Identify the unknown Amino Acid.

Amino acids are the fundamental building blocks of all proteins. Often times scientists may need to identify the amino acid contained in a protein. One such method for separating and identifying individual amino acids is paper chromatography. In this activity, students will perform a paper chromatography experiment on three known amino acids, and then use their results to identify the components of an unknown amino acid mixture. Aligned to NGSS Standards PS1A, PS1B; MS-PS1-2, HS-PS1-3; Patterns.