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An amino acid is a building block, a constituent, the base unit of polypeptides and thus of proteins. There are 20 different amino acids (valine, lysine, aspartate, glutamate, glycine, tryptophan, phenylalanine and so on). An amino acid has a central carbon group, attached to which are an amine group (NH2), a carboxylic acid group (COOH), a hydrogen and an R group. The R groups is the only part that differs from amino acid to amino acid and thus defines the amino acid.

A nucleic acid is a genetic molecule. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) are nucleic acids. They are polynucleotides, made up of a phosphate-sugar backbone and nitrogenous bases of which there are four types: adenine, thymine (uracil in RNA), cytosine and guanine. A single nucleotide is a single 'unit' such as this: a phosphate, sugar and base combination. DNA's sugar is deoxyribose, RNA's sugar is ribose.

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