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  2. Functional group - Wikipedia

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    The reactivity of a functional group can be modified by other functional groups nearby. Functional group interconversion can be used in retrosynthetic analysis to plan organic synthesis. A functional group is a group of atoms in a molecule with distinctive chemical properties, regardless of the other atoms in the molecule. The atoms in a ...

  3. Functional group (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    A functional group is a collection of organisms that share characteristics within a community. Ideally, these would perform equivalent tasks based on domain forces ...

  4. Biological organisation - Wikipedia

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    Functional groups of cells Organ: Functional groups of tissues Organ system: Functional groups of organs Ecological levels: Organism: The basic living system, a functional grouping of the lower-level components, including at least one cell Population: Groups of organisms of the same species: Guild: Interspecific groups of organisms carrying the ...

  5. Amino acid - Wikipedia

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    Arginine has a charged guanidino group and lysine a charged alkyl amino group, and are fully protonated at pH 7. Histidine's imidazole group has a pK a of 6.0, and is only around 10% protonated at neutral pH. Because histidine is easily found in its basic and conjugate acid forms it often participates in catalytic proton transfers in enzyme ...

  6. Flavonoid - Wikipedia

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    Molecular structure of the flavone backbone (2-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone) Isoflavan structure Neoflavonoids structure. Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids; from the Latin word flavus, meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of polyphenolic secondary metabolites found in plants, and thus commonly consumed in the diets of humans.

  7. Functionality (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, functionality is often used as a synonym for functional group. For example, a hydroxyl group can also be called a HO-function. [1] [2] Functionalisation means the introduction of functional groups, for example the functionalisation of a surface [3] (e.g. silanization for the specific modification of the adhesion of a surface)

  8. Acyl group - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, an acyl group is a moiety derived by the removal of one or more hydroxyl groups from an oxoacid, [1] including inorganic acids. It contains a double-bonded oxygen atom and an organyl group ( R−C=O ) or hydrogen in the case of formyl group ( H−C=O ).

  9. Function (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A functional characteristic is known in evolutionary biology as an adaptation, and the research strategy for investigating whether a character is adaptive is known as adaptationism. Although assuming that a character is functional may be helpful in research, some characteristics of organisms are non-functional, formed as accidental spandrels ...