A carbon skeleton is covalently bonded to both an amino group and a carboxyl group. When placed in water it...

Question

A carbon skeleton is covalently bonded to both an amino group and a carboxyl group. When placed in water it...

a. would function only as an acid because of the carboxyl group
b. would function only as a base b/c of the amino group
c. would function as neither an acid nor a base
d. would function as both an acid and a base
e. is impossible to determine how it would function

Answer 1

d