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One of the20 building blocks from which proteins are assembled. Isoleucine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine are deemed 'essential' amino acids because the human body cannot make them and they must be obtained in the diet. Amino acids are sometimes taken orally in supplement form.
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One of the amino acids that has a branch chain, namely, Leucine, isoleucine, and valine.
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An amino acid that cannot be made by humans and so is essential to the human diet. There are 9 essential amino acids: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.
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An amino acid that can be made by humans and so is not essential to the human diet. There are 11 nonessential amino acids: alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, and tyrosine.
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One of several molecules that join together to form proteins. There are 20 common amino acids found in proteins.
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Organic nitrogen containing acids which are used to construct proteins.
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(am-ee-no) [Gk. Ammon, referring to the Egyptian sun god, near whose temple ammonium salts were first prepared from camel dung] An organic molecule possessing both carboxyl and amino groups. Amino aci [..]
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Amino acids are molecules that contain at least one amine group (-NH2) and at least one carboxylic acid group (-COOH). When these groups are both attached to the same carbon, the acid is an -amino aci [..]
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One of a group of chemical compounds (organic acids) that have an amino group (NH2); many are the building blocks of proteins.
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nutrient containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen that is critical for all life.
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A class of molecules that are the building blocks of proteins. There are 20 different amino acids used to make up proteins. 15 Animation, 15 Video, 15 Bio; 16 Animation
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unit molecule from which proteins are constructed by polymerization.
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An organic molecule bearing a carboxylic acid group -COOH and an amino group -NH2
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Amino acids are small molecules that serve as building blocks of proteins
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Amino Acids are the chemical units or "building blocks" of the body that make up proteins. You can find out more about amino acids on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_a [..]
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An organic molecule including one or more amino (_NH2
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a natural element that houses a carboxyl group and an amino group. The latter takes place organically as the foundation of the protein molecules. Out of over twenty amino acids, eight of them belongin [..]
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The basic building block of proteins. A short chain of amino acids is called a peptide, and a long chain of amino acids (normally more than 50) is called a protein.
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(Gr. Ammon
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The unit molecular building block of proteins, which are chains of amino acids in a certain sequence. There are 20 main amino acids in the proteins of living things, and the properties of a protein ar [..]
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Building block of proteins and enzymes. Dietary proteins need to be broken into their amino acid components before they can be used by the body. Note that there are 20 amino acids found in proteins. Many nutritional lists describe only 18 occluding glutamine and asparagine. Their values are included in those reported for the acidic forms glutamate [..]
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a set of molecules which in sequence make up proteins. Each amino acid is represented in a gene by a specific codon.
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The constituent block that makes up proteins. Some can be produced by the human body whereas others can be obtained only through the diet.
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Amino acids are, among other things, constituent elements of protein. There are twenty different kinds of amino acids in human protein, and any number of amino acid molecules — up to many thousands — [..]
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one of the molecular building blocks of proteins. A protein is made up of a chain of amino acids in a certain sequence. This sequence of amino acids determines the properties of the protein, and is it [..]
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The unit molecular building block of proteins, which are chains of amino acids in a certain sequence. There are 20 main amino acids in the proteins of living things, and the properties of a protein ar [..]
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A compound that contains both an acidic group and an amino group. There are 20 biologically important amino acids that are present in proteins.
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One of the 20 building blocks of protein.
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An organic acid containing both amino (NH2) and carboxyl (COOH) groups, and usually having the general formula R-CH-COOH | NH2
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nitrogen containing component of a protein molecule
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[noun] Biochemical molecules that contain at least one amine group (-NH2) and at least one carboxylic acid group (-COOH) and conform to the general formula NH2-R-COOH, where R is an organic molecule. Amino acids are essential basic building blocks of proteins. Appears in modules:
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The building block of proteins. The messenger RNA tells the cell what amino acids are needed and what order they must be arranged in to build a particular protein. There are 20 different amino acids u [..]
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building block of protein; an organic molecule containing an amino (-NH2) and a carboxyl(-COOH) group from which proteins are synthesized. ammonia -
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An organic compound containing at least one amino group and one carboxyl group. In the 20 different amino acids that compose proteins, an amino group and carboxyl group are linked to a central carbon [..]
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Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Put very simplistically, our genes tell our bodies which amino acids to put into the proteins that we make, and it is the proteins that make up the sig [..]
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A combination of amines and acids, which provide the basis for proteins.
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a substance containing both an amine group and a carboxylic acid group. Proteins are composed of amino acids.
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an organic molecule that contains an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl group (-COOH); amino acids are as the building blocks of proteins.
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Amino Acids with side chains that are negatively charged at physiological pH.
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Amino Acids containing an aromatic side chain.
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Amino Acids with side chains that are positively charged at physiological pH.
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Endogenous Amino Acids released by Neurons as excitatory Neurotransmitters. Glutamic Acid is the most common excitatory Neurotransmitter in the Brain. Aspartic Acid has been regarded as an excitatory [..]
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A carbon compound containing both an amine (NH2) and an carboxylic acid (-C(O)-OH) functional group. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which can be considered a special case of condensation polymers. Twenty main amino acids are responsible for most of the incredible variation in proteins, and these have been given one letter symbols [..]
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A chemical compound that forms the basic building block of proteins.
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Amino acids are the building blocks of the proteins, the biological workhorses of nearly every structural component of the body (see protein). Proteins are found in all living things including animals [..]
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An organic compound containing nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; one of the 20 building blocks of protein.
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Organic compounds that contain the amino (NH,) group and the carboxyl (COOH) group. Amino acids are the "building stones" of proteins. Ammonia.
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The basic building block of a protein. There are about 20 different amino acids. Long chains of amino acids make up a protein or a polypedtide chain. Examples include phenylalanine, threonine and alanine.
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An amino acid is a chemical compound that consists of an amino group (NH2) and a carboxyl group (COOH) attached to the same carbon chain. A protein is a string of amino acids folded into a predestined [..]
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Any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group and one carboxyl group; they are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed
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The fundamental building blocks of a protein molecule. A protein is composed of a chain of hundreds or thousands of amino acids. Our bodies can synthesize most of the amino acids. However, eight amino [..]
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The basic building block of proteins. A short chain of amino acids is called a peptide and a long chain of amino acids (normally more than fifty) is called a protein.
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Organic nitrogen containing acids which are used to construct proteins.
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Organic compounds that are the building blocks of proteins.
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<biochemistry> A class of organic molecules that containing an amino group and can combine in linear arrays to form proteins in living organisms. There are twenty common amino acids: alanine, arginine, aspargine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, prol [..]
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The basic building block of proteins (or polypeptides). Containing a basic amino (NH2) group, an acidic carboxyl (COOH) group and a side chain (R - of a number of different kinds) attached to an alpha [..]
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A chemical substance found in plants and animals. The building blocks of hair.
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A molecule of the general formula NH2-CHR-COOH, where "R" is one of a number of different side chains. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. The sixty-four codons of the genetic code allow the use of twenty different amino acids (the primary amino acids) in the synthesis of proteins. Other nonprimary amino acids occur in protei [..]
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A chemical substance found in plants and animals. The building blocks of hair.
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a basic structural unit, from which protein is built. Different combinations of amino acids represent different proteins. The exact combination of amino acids is encoded is encoded in DNA with three s [..]
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(organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group. (biochemistry) Any of the twenty naturally occurring ?-amino acids (having the amino, and [..]
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Amino acids are the building blocks of all proteins. Some amino acids also function as chemical signals, such as neurotransmitters.
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Amino acids are organic compounds of amine (-NH2) and carboxylic acid (-COOH) with specific side-chains (-R) which join together in long chains to form proteins, neurotransmitters, and transport. Amin [..]
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