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Amino acids, as their name suggests, are distinguished by having both an amino group and an acid (carboxylate) group. For historical reasons, however, most amino acids end in "-ine", indicating the amine group. The group of amino acids having carboxylate side chains, however, end in "-ate", and includes aspartate and glutamate (sometimes called aspartic acid and glutamic acid). Tryptophan is the odd man out, having a unique indole functional group.

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The majority of enzymes end with the suffix -ase.

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-globin

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