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dihydroxyphenylalanine

[ dahy-hahy-drok-si-fen-l-al-uh-neen, -nin, -feen-l- ]

noun

, Biochemistry.


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Example Sentences

Each of the 15 proteins that make up the mollusks’ holdfasts—thread-like structures that help attach the mussel to a hard substrate-- contains an abundance of an amino acid called dihydroxyphenylalanine, or DOPA.

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dihydroxydiiodomethane