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Galician
Noun
aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)
- (organic chemistry) amino acid
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do
Noun
aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)
- (organic chemistry) amino acid (any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid)
- (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, Philippines) /aminoˈasido/
- Rhymes: -aθido
- Rhymes: -asido
- Syllabification: a‧mi‧no‧á‧ci‧do
Noun
aminoácido m (plural aminoácidos)
- (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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