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**Systematic name:** Aminoethanoic acid

**Symbol:** Gly (G)

**Molecular formula:** C₂H₅NO₂

**Chemical formula (condensed):** CH₂NH₂COOH

**Molar mass:** 75,07 g/mol

**Information:** Glycine is the simplest of the 22 proteinogenic (encoded) amino acids and the only one to be optically inactive. It Ranks among the amino acids with nonpolar side chain, but its overall character is not very polar.