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Acts as an catalyst, transporter, body defender, hormone control. Found mostly in muscle. Most expensive unit.
Can be converted into usable energy via metabolic pathways. |
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| Composition of N in protein |
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| amino acid synthetic form |
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Neutral, Equal number of carboxyl and amine groups
Ex: Glycine, Alanine, Serine, Threonine |
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Ring form
Ex: typtophan, tryosine, phenylalanine |
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| lmino grp (-NH) Found in collagen. |
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| Sulfur containing Amino acids |
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| Essential: Carbon skeleton unable to be synthesized in the animal body, or rapid enough. 10-11 essential AA's depending on species |
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Describes AA deficiencies. EAA interrupts synthesis due to limited amount/demand. Least in feed, great demand by animal.
Ex: Lysine, Methione,
D-L Met. (synthetic) |
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