What is the difference between protein and Amino Acids?Updated a year ago

Amino Acids and proteins are closely related, but they’re not exactly the same. Amino Acids are organic compounds that are primarily composed of nitrogen, carbon, oxygen and carbon, while proteins are chains of amino acids linked together. Your body has the ability to break proteins down into Amino Acids while also rebuilding Amino Acids into proteins. Both processes are important to your health (Annigan, J. 2018).