14.16 How do you explain the amphoteric behaviour of amino acids?
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Amino acid has both acidic group
and basic group 
. Thus in aqueous solution, the carboxyl group can lose a proton and the basic group (amine group) can accept a proton. In this way, it forms zwitter ion which can act in both ways i.e., acidic as well as basic. Hence amino acids are amphoteric in nature.