The essential amino acid for cats but not dogs is taurine. Taurine is an amino acid that is essential in the process of metabolizing fats. Cats need twelve essential amino acids compared to eleven needed by dogs. The deficiency of this amino acid is most diagnosed in cats ad it generally leads to blindness, deafness and heart failure in felines.
This is the answer because they are the basic units of nucleic acids. These nucleotides are made up of a pentose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group.
