Understanding the Building Blocks of Life: Amino Acids

What are Amino Acids?
Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form proteins. They contain an amino group (-NH2), a carboxylic acid group (-COOH), and a side chain (R group) that is unique to each amino acid.

The 20 Standard Amino Acids
The 20 standard Amino Acid refer to those proteinogenic amino acids that are incorporated biosynthetically into proteins during translation. Each amino acid has its own one- or three-letter abbreviation. The 20 standard amino acids are glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, serine, threonine, cysteine, methionine, proline, phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, asparagine, glutamine, aspartate, glutamate, lysine, arginine, and histidine.

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