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Organic compounds containing amine as functional group are present in a vivid variety of compounds, namely amino acids, hormones, neurotransmitters, DNA, alkaloids, dyes, stc. Drugs including nicotine group in one form or another. Amines are basic because of the presence of lone pair of electrons on nitrogen. Addition of nitrogen into an organic framework leads to the formation of two families of molecules, namely amines and amides. As chemistry students, we must appreciate the versatility of nitrogen. Give one point of difference between acidic and basic amino acid. |
| Answer» Solution :If the NUMBER of carboxyl groups is more than the number of AMINO groups, it is an ACIDIC amino ACID. If the number of amino groups is more than of carboxyl groups, it is basic amino acid. | |