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Amphipathic vs U - What's the difference?

amphipathic | u |

As an adjective amphipathic

is describing a molecule, such as a detergent, which has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.

As a letter u is

: I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.

As a noun u is

a thing in the shape of the letter U.

amphipathic

English

(wikipedia amphipathic)

Adjective

(-)
  • (chemistry) describing a molecule, such as a detergent, which has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.
  • (biochemistry) often refers to the surface(s) on a protein, particularly an alpha helix, where one surface of the alpha helix has hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite face has hydrophobic (or lipophilic) amino acids.

    • See also

    * amphiprotic * amphoteric * surfactant

    u

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-first letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "u")

    Etymology 2

    Symbol

    (head)
  • symbol for unified atomic mass unit
  • ).
  • (label) up quark

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }} Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur ----