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Is valine a polar amino acid?

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Valine is an amino acid, one of the biochemical components of proteins. A protein can consist of hundreds of amino acids. So valine is not a protein but a part of a protein in the way that one piece is not an entire jigsaw puzzle :).

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no because its side is chain non polar.

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