I had a great time at Elmhurst College. It's really easy to get involved in the different programs and in the end I graduated through the Honors Program, with 3 different honors organizations that I was a part of and with a double major in Music and Computer Science with a minor in Audio Engineering.
In amino acids that have a carbon chain attached to the Î±âcarbon (such as lysine, shown to the right) the carbons are labeled in order as Î±, Î², Î³, Î´, and so on. In some amino acids, the amine group is attached to the Î² or Î³-carbon, and these are therefore referred to as beta or gamma amino acids.
Within a protein, multiple amino acids are linked together by peptide bonds, thereby forming a long chain. Peptide bonds are formed by a biochemical reaction that extracts a water molecule as it joins the amino group of one amino acid to the carboxyl group of a neighboring amino acid.