- Essential amino acids: isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine
- Arginine and histidine form the group of so- called **semi-essential amino acids**
- **non-essential amino acids -** alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine , glutamic acid, glycine, proline, serin and tyrosine
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