Daily Recommendations. Recommendations for vitamin A are based on age. Infants between 0 and 6 months require 400 mcg per day, whereas infants between 7 and 12 months need 500 mcg per day. Toddlers between 1 and 3 need 300 mcg every day.
The twenty amino acids can be divided into two groups of 10 amino acids. Ten are essential and 10 are nonessential. However, this is really not an accurate dichotomy, as there is overlap between the two groups, as is indicated in the text accompanying the following two charts:
These six are arginine, cysteine, glycine, glutamine, proline and tyrosine (i.e. R C G Q P Y). Five amino acids are dispensable in humans, meaning they can be synthesized in the body. These five are alanine, aspartic acid, asparagine, glutamic acid and serine (i.e., A D N E S).