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What is not attached to the central carbon atom in an amino acid?

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The correct answer is oxygen

Step-by-step explanation:

Amino acid is the simplest and smallest unit from which a protein is made up of. Amino acid contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Each amino acid contains an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen group and an R chain(side chain).

These groups are attached to a carbon atom called alpha carbon. So in an amino acid an amino-functional group, a side chain(R group), and a carboxylic function group are attached to central atom but not oxygen.

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