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• plural of amino acid.

amino acids

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1. Basic organic molecules (see also organic molecule) that combine to form proteins. Amino acids are made up of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. Some examples of amino acids are lysine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan.

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Amino acids are the basic molecular building blocks of proteins.

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Research has found that temperatures only slightly above freezing can be more effective than warmer conditions for assembling complex chains of amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

This feeding behavior may protect them from consuming excessive amounts of certain amino acids when pollen does not provide the nutritional mix they need.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Essential amino acids are protein building blocks that animals cannot produce themselves and therefore must obtain through food.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Professor Wright added: "We predict that honeybees have evolved to create glandular secretions which are the perfect food for their larvae, providing them with the ratios of essential amino acids that maximize growth."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Beans have both lysine and tryptophan, but not the amino acids cysteine and methionine, which are provided by maize.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann