What is the Difference Between Quark Combinations in Baryons?

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this isn't really a problem, just a question.
with baryons, what exactly is the difference between the different quark combonations?
for example, a proton had two up quarks and a down but so does the delta, or one of them, i guess. shouldn't that mean that they are the same particle?
how are they different?



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the only thing i could thing of was the different order that the quarks are it, or a difference in spin. it wouldn't be a difference in charge, though, because the fractional charges in the quarks are what determines the charge of the whole particle, right?
 
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The three quark spins in the nucleon add up to spin 1/2,
and to spin 3/2 in the Delta.