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amino acid
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English
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Noun
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Sense: any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group
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Synonyms
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Hypernyms
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Holonyms
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Further reading
English
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Noun
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Sense: any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group
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Synonyms
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amino acid
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essential amino acid
nonessential amino acid
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histidine
isoleucine
leucine
lysine
methionine
phenylalanine
threonine
tryptophan
valine
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alanine
aspargine
aspartic acid
cysteine
glutamic acid
glutamine
glycine
proline
serine
tyrosine
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organic compound
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chemical compound
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zwitterion
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protein
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Category:Amino acids
Further reading
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“
amino acid
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.