amphipathic
Meaning of amphipathic
adjective
- Describing a molecule, such as a detergent, which has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.
- Of 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.
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Hyphenation of amphipathic
am-phi-pathic
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- amphipathic is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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