Essential Amino Acids & Classifications...

Name the 10 essential amino acids:

Phenlyalanine Valine Tryptophan Threonine Isoleucine Methlonine Histidine Arginine Lysine Leucine

Why is tyrosine in there & what is important about it?

Tyrosine is not essential because we can make it from phenylalanine.

What are the Aromatic amino acids?

Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, & Tryptophan

What are the branched chain amino acids?

Valine, Leucine, Isoleucine (All of these are essential)

How many essential amino acids are there?

10

What are the Acidic Amino Acids?

Glutamic Acid, Aspartic Acid

What are some other amino acids?

Hydroxyproline & hydroxylysine

What are the basic amino acids?

Lysine , Arginine, Histidine

What are the sulfur-containing amino acids?

Methionine & cysteine (Cysteine can be made from methionine)

What is the trick to remembering all of the essential amino acids?

PVT TIM HALL

What is something to note about the acidic amino acids?

They are non-essential amino acids.