- published: 21 Mar 2014
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Amino acids ( /əˈmiːnoʊ/, /əˈmaɪnoʊ/, or /ˈæmɪnoʊ/) are molecules containing an amine group, a carboxylic acid group, and a side-chain that is specific to each amino acid. The key elements of an amino acid are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. They are particularly important in biochemistry, where the term usually refers to alpha-amino acids.
An alpha-amino acid has the generic formula H2NCHRCOOH, where R is an organic substituent; the amino group is attached to the carbon atom immediately adjacent to the carboxylate group (the α–carbon). Other types of amino acid exist when the amino group is attached to a different carbon atom; for example, in gamma-amino acids (such as gamma-amino-butyric acid) the carbon atom to which the amino group attaches is separated from the carboxylate group by two other carbon atoms. The various alpha-amino acids differ in which side-chain (R-group) is attached to their alpha carbon, and can vary in size from just one hydrogen atom in glycine to a large heterocyclic group in tryptophan.
Listen my friend for I shall bestow the secret of
happiness upon you:
no greater joy than the excitement of a wild snowball
fight,
no greater cosiness than the warmth of an open fire,
no greater achievement than forced genetic stride
So to fulfil this holy trinity, to inseparably unite
them
into oneness, there is, logically, only one way:
creation of a
nuclear winter
wonderland, pure bliss
condensed into crystalline white with just a hint of a
green tinge.
Just let your inner eye
gaze into this marvellous glance:
Children running (around), whooping, flinging three
snowballs at once.
not everyone
may recognize
that we’re in store for a future so bright
Such a dear sight,
who needs a
Christmas carol
when one can have a fission parol?
Just press that cute little button, such a lovely shade
of red, and of you go, the dream comes true, in the end
Snow gently caressing the earth, the dream of every
little boy
Snow gently caressing the earth, the children radiate
with joy
not everyone
may recognize
that we’re in store for a future so bright
We should
Ask ourselves
With open eyes
isn't the quest for bliss worth a few million
sacrificed?
we will behold the genesis of a paradise:
the nuclear winter wonderland shall arise
Snow gently caressing the earth,
the dream of every girl and boy
Snow gently caressing the earth,