AMINO ACIDS

Amino acids are the building blocks (monomers) of proteins

Two individual amino acids can be linked to form a larger molecule, with the loss of a water molecule as a by-product of the reaction.

• alanine

• arginine

• asparagine

• aspartic acid

• cysteine

• glutamine

• glutamic acid

• glycine

• histidine

• isoleucine

• leucine

• lysine

• methionine

• phenylalanine

• proline

• serine

• threonine

• tryptophan

• tyrosine

• valine

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