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What is an amino acid?

What is an amino acid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
  2. (biochemistry) Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.
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The body normally converts the amino acid tyrosine into the pigment melanin.
Proteins encoded in overlapping reading frames from the same nucleotides have different levels of amino acid variation.
The simplest amino acid is glycine which contains a hydrogen atom as its side group.
A second component of these molecules was identified as an amide or an amino acid.
The good news is that the change of a single amino acid in the major peanut allergen can reduce reactivity.
In addition, the amino acid composition of protein in the yolk and albumen of six young females' eggs was similar to that in early laid eggs.

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