Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Amino acids and their properties...yawn...

Holy guacamole! It’s been ~two months since I last posted (note to self, never buy an alarm clock from poundland). So anyways, I was cleaning my room yesterday (not out of my own free will, just don't wanna get beaten up by my mum) and happened upon my notes from last year. I remember having to learn the amino acids and their properties, which was worse than being repeatedly head-butted in the groin by an army of midgets vertically challenged people. I figured out a way to make learning about the amino acids and their properties more memorable (and less painful)...

 

The diagram is pretty self-explanatory; one important note, I've used the one-letter amino acid nomenclature. If you're not familiar with it, this site (http://www.bioinf.manchester.ac.uk/dbbrowser/jj/aacodefrm.html) has the single-letter codes for the amino acids. Peace out homies...