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beta-amino acid

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables
be-ta-amino acid
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to adjacent carbon atoms; beta-alanine is the only one that occurs in nature, but not in peptides or proteins.

Inflected Forms

beta-amino acids (plural) β-amino acid (alternative)

Phrases

alpha-amino acid beta-peptide

Frequently Paired Words

alpha-amino acid beta-peptide

Questions

What does beta-amino acid mean?
Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to adjacent carbon atoms; beta-alanine is the only one that occurs in nature, but not in peptides or proteins.

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