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Amino acid

The building blocks of proteins, the 'doing' molecules of a cell. A protein is made of long chains of amino acids joined together and folded up in a very precise way. There are twenty different types of amino acid, all with different chemical properties. The jobs a protein is able to carry out are determined by the order the amino acids are joined together in. This order is determined, in turn, by the order of the bases on the gene that makes it.