Amino Acids,Amino Acid MCAT 2026 With 100% Correct Answers

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California State University, Northridge
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BIOL 04014 | Human Biological Sciences
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2025
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Kelvin Maingi

Amino Acids, Amino Acids MCAT 2026 With 100% Correct Answers Glycine - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) Most simple, optically inactive Hydrogen for R Alanine - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) Methyl for R, a simple functional group to start just like "A" starts alphabet Valine - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) Simple, R shaped like a V Leucine - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) Valine extended with one methyle Isoleucine - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) "Lopsided Valine" Proline - ✔✔Aliphatic (non-polar) 3 Carbon chain to N Special Structure found in turns Methionine - ✔✔Sulfur Containing Starts every protien 3 Carbons with a thioether methyl blocked sulfhydryl Cysteine - ✔✔Sulfur Containing Sulfhydryl alanine reactive, can form disulfides Phenylalanine - ✔✔Aromatic Alanine with phenyl group y reminds of aromatics Tyrosine - ✔✔Aromatic hydroxylated phenylalanine, one of 3 "T"s that has "Y" in its name so it is an aromatic Tryptophan - ✔✔Aromatic one of 3 "T"s with a "Y" so it is aromatic, will "tryp" you up because it is hard to remember, has a 3 carbon start to N (or indole ring on methylene) Serine - ✔✔Aliphatic hydroxyl "hydroxyl alanine" Threonine - ✔✔Aliphatic, "threo" parts are methyl, hydroxyl, and hydrogen on a single C Aspartate - ✔✔Acidic "carboxyl alanine" "ate" -> acidic Glutamate - ✔✔Aspartate plus one methylene, side chain length is signified by alphabetical ordering of the first letter in the names (G is after A) Arginine - ✔✔Basic 3 carbon chain linked to a C full of only N's (no H's & C has 4 bonds) through an N Lysine - ✔✔Basic 3 carbon chain plus one methylene to amino, it lies ("Lys") about the 3 carbon trend Histidine - ✔✔Basic 3 carbons to N and loop back through C 'n' N Asparagine - ✔✔Amide derivatives of acids - loose OH for NH2 to loose charge amide derivative of aspartate Glutamine - ✔✔Amide derivatives of acids - loose OH for NH2 to loose charge amide derivative of glutamate

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