Question

Balls and sticks are solid spheres and rods, representing atoms and bonds, respectively.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

My question is taken from Protein Structural Visualization topic in section Structural Bioinformatics of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

(a) True

In a balls-and-sticks model, the atoms are represented by solid spheres (balls), and the chemical bonds between them are depicted as rods (sticks). This model is commonly used to represent molecular structures, including proteins, in structural bioinformatics. The spheres represent the size and position of atoms, while the rods show how atoms are connected by bonds.