How Do You Learn And Understand The Chemistry Of Amino Acids And Its Biological Roles In The Body?
• Amino acids are chemical compounds that have important biological function in the tissues of all living organisms including humans and animals. They are usually present naturally as building blocks of special type of macromolecules that are called proteins. This type of macromolecules is abundant in nature and is found in many food products including meat products and other food sources. There are 20 known amino acids in the body that combined comprise the structure of all proteins in the body. • The body of humans is able to synthesize part of those amino acids as part of its complex metabolic function that include among many other functions the synthesis of certain type of these amino acids that for this reason are called nonessential amino acids. The other part of the 20 amino acids is not synthesized in the body due to the lack of special mechanisms for their synthesis such as the presence of appropriate enzymes for their proper synthesis. • These amino acids are usually obtained
