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Essential amino acids include...

Essential amino acids include

A

leucine

B

valine

C

tryptophan

D

all of these

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Essential amino acid are those which cannot be systhesised by organism in the body and are obtained from plants, e.g., valine, leucine, isoleucine phenylalanine, threonine, lysine, tryptophan, methionine.
Non-essential amino acids can be synthesised by the organism and may not be the requisite components of diet, e.g., serine cysteine, proline, glycine asparagine, glutamine and tyrosine.
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