Essential amino acids are amino acids that must be obtained through the diet. Non‑essential amino acids can be made biosynthetically. Classify the amino acids into either essential or non‑essential amino acids.

There are at present 20 major amino acids produced in the body. These amino acids are important biological components in the body. They are the building blocks of proteins. Also essential in the synthesis of nucleotides including the DNA and RNA. There are different ways of classified these amino acids:

Essential and non essential. The essential amino acids cannot be synthesized from scratch in the body but has to be obtained from our diet, while non essential is produced by the body

Acidic, basic, neutral, polar, non polar etc.

The essential amino acids are arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.

While the non essential amino acids are: alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, and tyrosine.