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glycine

/glahy-seen, glahy-seen/US // ˈglaɪ sin, glaɪˈsin //UK // (ˈɡlaɪsiːn, ɡlaɪˈsiːn) //

甘氨酸,甘辛,甘精,甘蔗

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Biochemistry.

    • : a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, H2NCH2COOH, the simplest amino acid: used chiefly in organic synthesis and biochemical research. Abbreviation: Gly; Symbol: G

Examples

  • They found that all these bacteria had the gene for an enzyme that could remove glycine.

  • Zein, the principal protein of corn contains no glycine, lysine, or tryptophane.

  • The plant generally known as Soja hispida is by modern botanists referred to Glycine soja.

  • The chief cultivation appears to be Coix, Glycine, and some rice, but the produce seemed very small.

  • The only cultivation is potatoes, a few years since introduced, and which answers admirably, some turnips and Glycine tuberosa.

  • Glycine chinénsis, is given to Wistèria, and is the finest climbing shrub of the phaseolious tribe.