Multiple Choice
The disease phenylketonuria (PKU) illustrates how a nonessential amino acid can become conditionally essential as a result of a genetic disease. A person with PKU has a limited ability to metabolize the essential amino acid
A) phenylalanine.
B) lysine.
C) methionine.
D) ascorbic acid.
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