Glycine

Know your Amino Acids fact sheet:

Full name	Glycine
3 letter name	Gly
1 letter name	G

What you see:	What a biochemist sees:


Speciality	–
Sources (animal)	Meat
Sources (plant)	Sugar cane

Chemical formula	C₂H₅NO₂
Essential	–
Non-essential	X

Hydrophobic	–
Hydrophilic (neutral)	X
(positive)	–
(negative)	–

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