Biology: How Life Works
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781319017637
Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Amino acids are the organic molecules which are found to be the building blocks of proteins. The amino acids possess a central carbon atom which is the alpha carbon. This carbon atom is connected to four diverse chemical groups by the covalent bonds. These chemical groups include an amino group (-NH2), a carboxyl group (-COOH), a hydrogen atom, and an organic R group or side chain.
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