aminoácido

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Galician

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

  1. (organic chemistry) amino acid

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

  1. (organic chemistry) amino acid (any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid)
  2. (biochemistry) amino acid (any of the twenty α-amino acids)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English amino acid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aminoˈaθido/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /aminoˈasido/
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -aθido
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -asido
  • Syllabification: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do

Noun

aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)

  1. (organic chemistry) amino acid
    • 2009, Purves, David Sadava, Vida, Ed. Médica Panamericana →ISBN, page 264
      El código genético no es ambiguo: un aminoácido dado puede estar codificado por más de un codón, pero un codón puede codificar sólo un aminoácido.
      Genetic code is not ambiguous: a given amino acid may be encoded by more than one codon, but a codon may encode only one amino acid.

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