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Amino acid dating is a dating technique used to estimate the age of a specimen in paleobiology Amino acid racemization analysis consists of sample preparation, isolation of the amino acid wanted, and measure of its D:L ratio. Sample.

At a widely publicized news conference in August of , Dr. Jeffrey Bada of Scripps Institute of Oceanography announced the “discovery” of a new dating method based on the rate of racemization of amino acids in fossil material. He was quoted as saying that he had discovered the basis of the method in , and that it was so obvious and simple he was amazed it hadn’t been discovered earlier. As a matter of fact, the basis of this method had been discovered earlier and had been reported in a series of papers published by Hare, Mitterer and Abelson in , , and Amino acids are the “building blocks,” or sub-units, of proteins.

About 20 different kinds of amino acids are found in proteins. Each amino acid has two chemical groups, an amino group and a carboxyl group, which can form chemical bonds with other amino acids. The amino group of one amino acid can combine with the carboxyl group of a second amino acid to form a “peptide” bond, and its carboxyl group can combine with the amino group of a third amino acid, and the chain can thus be extended indefinitely. The amino acids combine with each other like the links of a chain to form a long protein chain.

Proteins contain from 50 to several hundred amino acids.