I'm confused because I see now two different way to represent the glycine amino acid. while I understand the first way of the representation the second one I don't understand at all. I believe that both represent the same amino acid but I see that some of the componenets are absent in the second way (no COOH and no carbon). I would like to know the explanation or simple instruction for understand and correct reading of such diagrams.
This is the first and the simplest way:
And this is the second (and non-understandable) way:
