Glossary · Chemistry
Amino acid
One of the small molecules that join in chains to make proteins. The body uses twenty standard ones, such as glycine and leucine.
In Icillion
Icillion has 1 prompt where this comes up, accepting 34 answers between them. 24 of those sit in The Deep or further down.
Some examples
Taken from “Name an amino acid”, the familiar end of the list:
- Glycine
- Alanine
- Leucine
- Lysine
- Valine
- Isoleucine
- Tryptophan
- Tyrosine
- Phenylalanine
- Glutamine
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