Definition of "amino acids" [amino acids]

• Plural form of amino acid. (noun)

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• "Since at any moment a cell is organizing amino acids at the incredible rate of thousands per second, why not store the information in the nucleus directly as a string of amino acids, or have twenty different baselike molecules, each one indicating a specific amino acid, rather than the three bases that nature actually uses?"
• "Between each session of mitosis, a cell goes through an interphase lasting some ten to twenty hours, depending upon cell type, during which among other activities the cell is occupied with protein synthesis—that amazingly complex flow in which individual amino acids are brought into the cell, strung onto specifically ordered chains, snipped, respliced, and then shaped into structures of life."
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