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Amino Acids w/symbol

amino acids and their symbols and description

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Symbol for Aspartic Acid Asp
Symbol for Glutamic Acid Glu
Symbol for Argine Arg
Symbol for Lysine Lys
Symbol for Histidine His
Symbol for Asparagine Asn
Symbol for Glutamine Gln
Symbol for Serine Ser
Symbol for Threonine Thr
Symbol for Tyrosine Tyr
Symbol for Alanine Ala
Symbol for Glycine Gly
Symbol for Valine Val
Symbol for Leucine Leu
Symbol for Isoleucine Ile
Symbol for Proline Pro
Symbol for Phenylalanine Phe
Symbol for Methionine Met
Symbol for Tryptophan Trp
Symbol for Cysteine Cys
What Two Amino Acids are Negatively Charged, and Polar? (Hydrophilic) Aspartic acid (Asp) Glutamic acid (Glu)
What Three Amino Acids are Positively Charged and Polar? (Hydrophilic) Arginine (Arg) Lysine (Lys) Histidine (His)
What Five Amino Acids are Uncharged and Polar? (Hyrdophilic) Asparagine (Asn) Glutamine (Gln) Serine (Ser) Threonine (Thr) Tyrosine (Tyr)
What Ten Amino Acids are NonPolar? (Hydrophobic) Alanine (Ala) Glycine (Gly) Valine (Val) Leucine (Leu) Isoleucine (Ile) Proline (Pro) Phenylalanine (Phe) Methionine (Met) Tryptophan (Trp) Cysteine (Cys)
How is Proline (Pro) and Glycine (Gly) different from the other amino acids? They are side chain breakers
What does methionine do? (Met) Needed for translation.
What does tryptophan do? (Trp) makes you sleepy
Which amino acids are Aliphatic? Alanine (Ala) Glycine (Gly) Valine (Val) Leucine (Leu) Isoleucine (Isl)
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