Amino acid is consist of an amino group, attached to a carbon with a hydrogen bonded to it.
The same alfa carbon is attached to a carboxylic acid and R(alkyl group)
The general formula is as follows
NH2-CHR-COO
The basic structure of an amino acid is a carbon chain with an amino group (NH2) at one end, and a carboxyl group (-COOH) at the other. The differences between amino acids lies in the carbon chain in the middle; it can be as simple as one carbon or as complex as many carbon atoms with branches and forks. Side groups can be added, such as sulphur.
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The main identifying factor is The Peptide Bond.
In this Bond the -C-C-C-C- chain is interrupted by Nitrogen as in -C-C-N-C-C-N-C-C-N-C.
All amino acids have the same 3 components: from the C-terminal end, there is an acid group (-COOH) that is bonded to the next C in the chain that is bonded to one H and one -R group [that will determine the kind of amino acid], that is followed by a NH2- that conjoins with the acid of the NEXT AMINO ACID.
The basic structure looks something like this:
H H O
N C C OH
H R
You may also see it like this
H H O
H N C C
H R O
This is just showing the protonated version.
Amino acids are organic compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and (in some cases) sulfurbonded in characteristic formations. Strings of amino acids make up proteins, of which there are countless varieties. Of the 20 amino acids required for manufacturing the proteins the human body needs, the body itself produces only 12, meaning that we have to meet our requirements for the other eight through nutrition. This is just one example of the importance of amino acids in the functioning of life. Another cautionary illustration of amino acids' power is the gamut of diseases (most notably, sickle-cell-anemia) that impair or claim the lives of those whose amino acids are out of sequence or malfunction. Once used in dating objects from the distant past, amino acids have existed on Earth for at least three billionyears-long before the appearance of the first true organisms.
- Tommy Elmasian
Amino acids have structure R-CH(-COOH)-NH2
Amino acid = Smallest building block of proteins; 20 of them. In this order. Amino acid < dipeptide ( two peptides ) < polypeptide (many peptides ) < Protein
No, RNA is made of nucleic acid.
tRNA brings amino acids to the mRNA on the ribosome.
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the primary, secondary, and tertiary level of a protein structure because once an amino acid is effected by a mutation in a single amino acid it ruins the entire protein on all levels
Dipeptide,amino acid,polypeptide,protein Amino Acid is the answer
It is an nonessential amino acid but I would not call it's structure that simple.
There is none. DNA is a nucleic acid composed of nucleotides. There are no amino acids in DNA.
H2NCHRCOOH is the structure of an alpha-animo acid.
The amino-acid secquence of myoglobin is the primary structure.
Yes.
The structure of preotein is (USUALLY) long strands of A.A (Amino Acid)
amino acid are the building block of proteins. Polypeptide are chains that bond amino acids to form protein structure
Protein tertiary structure is 3-D. Secondary structure is 2-D or linear. I. e. the linear a-a sequence is the secondary structure. Amino-acid monomers comprise the primary structure.
NO!!! Pyruvic acid is a keto acid. It has the structure CH3 - C(=O) - COOH
The amino acid proline is the only amino acid that has a secondary amine functional group. This is because proline is a cyclic amino acid that links the 3-carbon R-group back to the amine group, resulting in a secondary amine.
No, every amino acid has its own structural (molecular) formula.