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36: Scientific Language Models, The Smell of Space, and Forgotten Olympic Events

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Amino Acids Are the Building Blocks of Proteins

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins specifically. Can you describe what an amino acid is? Because I'm picturing like way to... I'm almost picturing like close to cells in my brain when I'm starting. Yeah, and we need to pull it right back. So, this is the sort of stuff that Ella was talking about earlier, looking at protein structure. It's amino acids that make those. As an amino acid made of, the basic amino group NH2 and an acidic carboxyl group COOH,. An organic R group or side chain that is unique to each one. But finding the stuff doesn't necessarily mean that we are going to find

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