Question

What is the simplest amino acid?

Answer 1

1. Glycine is the simplest amino acid.
2. It is the only amino acid without an asymmetric carbon atom.
3. Hence, it does not have D- or L- forms.
4. ‘The  side chain’ consists of hydrogen.
5. It possesses only one amino acid and one carboxylic group and neither substituent nor functional group.