different between amidin vs avidin

English

Borrowed from French amidine, from amido (“starch”), from Latin amylum.

amidin (countable and uncountable, plural amidins)

(chemistry) Starch modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

amidin

From Latin avidus (“hungry”) +? -in, based on its "hunger" for biotin.

avidin (countable and uncountable, plural avidins)

(biology) A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs.

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