AMINO ACID

Definition:

1. [noun] organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"
   Synonyms: aminoalkanoic acid
   
   

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Related Words:

• alanine
• asparagine
• aspartic acid
• canavanine
• citrulline
• cysteine
• cystine
• dopa, dihydroxyphenylalanine
• essential amino acid
• gamma aminobutyric acid, GABA
• glutamic acid, glutaminic acid
• glutamine
• glycine
• hydroxyproline
• iodoamino acid
• ornithine
• proline
• creatine, creatin
• sarcosine
• serine
• thyronine
• tyramine
• tyrosine