Question

Athletes are often concerned with the question of how much protein they need in their diets because of the requirement of growing muscles for protein. Just as muscles need the basic building block of protein, protein itself has basic building blocks also. Which of the following are the basic building blocks of protein?

triphosphates
nitrates
amino acids
monosaccharides
nucleotides

Answer 1

The basic building block of a protein is called an amino acid. There are 20amino acids in the proteins you eat and in the proteins within your body, and they link together to form large protein molecules.