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nonessential amino acid

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nonessential amino acid [¦nän·i′sen·chəl ə′mē·nō ′as·əd]
(biochemistry)
An amino acid which can be synthesized by an organism and thus need not be supplied in the diet.


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In Buchnera, the amazing thing is that they keep all the pathways for the essential amino acids and lose all the nonessential amino acids that there is no shortage of [in the host]," says Moran.
 
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