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What purpose for amino acid?

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Amino acids are the basic building blocks of proteins.

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Aminoacids are monomers used to build a protein polymer.

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Heat and Energy, Growth, To defend against disease, and to Repair bodily cells are the functions of amino acids/ proteins.

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Amino acids are proteins; they assist in the development, growth, and repair of cells.

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to help start making a polypeptide chain which in then makes a protein

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To be the subunits from which proteins are built. We use 20 of these acids and they all have different R groups so the bond in many different ways to make myriad proteins.

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Amino acids form proteins which conduct just about every reaction that occurs in a living organism. Basically to permit life to exist.

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Amino acids are the building blocks for the protein.

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amino acids code for proteins, and each protein has a specific "job", that makes the body the way it is.

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What amino acid is technically not an amino acid?

proline is not an amino acid it is an imino acid


Each codon calls for a specific?

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How does the process of translation convert information?

From a nucleic acid code to an amino acid code


What is a beta-amino acid?

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Is phosphoric acid an amino acid?

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What is glycogenic amino acid?

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Can tryosine is a aliphatic amino acid?

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How do you use amino acid in a sentence?

there is amino acid in your stomach.


What is amino acid that is in batteries?

the amino acid in the batteries is NH3+


In the genetic code a group of three nitrogen bases codes for a?

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