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MNEUMONICS TO LEARN SOME DIFFICULT

THINGS IN EASY WAY
: The ten essential amino acids
These ten valuable amino acids have long preserved life in man.
Threonine/Tryptophan/Valine/Argentine/Histidine/Lysine/Phenylalanine/Leucine/Isoleucine/Methionine.
:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(1)

The properties of amino acids

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Hydrophilic neutral - Glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, cysteine, proline, phenylalanine,
tryptophan
(2) Positive - Asparagine, glutamine, serine, threonine, tyrosine
(3) Negative - Aspartate, glutamate
(4) Neutral - Lysine, arginine, histidine

: The properties of bile

Bile from the liver emulsifies greases,
Tinges the urine and colours the faeces
Aids peristalsis, prevents putrefaction
If you remember all this youll give satisfaction.
: The functions of the blood
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Oxygen (transport)/Carbon dioxide (transport)/Food/Heat/Waste/Hormones/Disease/Clotting
: The bones of the upper limb
Some criminals have underestimated Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Scapula/Clavicle/Humerus/Ulna/Radius/Carpels/Metacarpals/Phalanges
: The construction of the brachial plexus nerves in the neck/shoulder region
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Roots, trunks, divisions, cords, branches
: The principles of capillary action
Water rises to the tops of plants by capillary action (CA), which depends upon cohesive and adhesive (C
+ A) properties of water.
: The (alpha, omega) dicarboxylic acids from C2-C10
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Oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, suberic, azelaic, sebacic
: The phases of cell division
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Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
: The order of items in an AC circuit
The voltage (V) across a capacitor lags the current (I) by 90 degrees. The voltage across the inductor (L)
leads the current by 90 degrees. This is given by the word CIVIL, when split into CIV and VIL.
: The most common elements of the planets crust, in descending order
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Oxygen, silicon, aluminium, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium

: The different categories of radiation, in order of increasing wavelength
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Cosmic, gamma, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, radio, television.
: Whether current leads voltage or lags it in reactive circuits
Think of Eli the Ice man. In inductive (L) circuits, voltage (E) leads current (I), hence ELI. In capacitive
(C) circuits, it is the other way, so ICE.
: The four elements that make lifes building blocks
HONC if you like life.
Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon.
: The excretory organs of the body
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Skin/kidneys/instetines/liver/lungs
: The branches of the facial nerve
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Temporal nerve, zygomatic nerve, buccal nerve, marginal mandibular nerve, cervical nerve
: The principles of heat transfer
Conduction - Imagine a line of passengers on a bus being asked to move down by the conductor, each
passenger causing the next to bustle along (analogy for the movement/vibration of atoms that is passed
along, causing heat to be transferred).
Convection - Consider vector, a disease-carrying insect, e.g. a mosquito, which travels in swarms (very much
like the movement of convection currents).
Radiation - Heat radiation is a form of radiation - (Think of nuclear fallout or the Suns radiation) and thus
travels in waves undetected until they fall upon another body.
: The parts of an insects leg
Cockroaches travel fast towards their children.
Coxa/trochanter/femur/tibia/tarsus/claw
: The role of insulin
Remember that insulin gets sugar into cells. Without insulin, a person can have excess of sugar in his blood
yet die of lack of sugar.
: Lichens are made up of algae and fungi
She was all gal (algal) and he was a fun guy (fungi). They took a likin (lichen) to each other.
: The definition of mechanical advantage
Men always like eating.
MA - load over effort (1/e)
: The order of hardness (Mohs scale of hardness)
Tall gyroscopes can fly apart, orbiting quickly to complete disintegration or,
Those girls can fly and other queer things can do.
Talc, gypsum or rock salt, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthaclase, quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond.
: The molecular shape of fructose and glucose
There are two simple sugars (monosaccharides) - fructose and glucose - which combine in a specific way
to form sucrose. Remember the molecular shape of fructose has five carbons (letter f starts both words) and
hexagon is the shape of glucose (letter g in both words).
: The noble gases
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Helium/neon/argon/krypton/xenon/radon
: Nucleotides of DNA
In DNA there are four nucleotides (cytosine, thymine, adenine, guanine) divided into two classes (pyrimidines
and purines). The easiest way to remember which class they belong to is that the pyrimidines contain the

letter y (cytosine and thymine).

: The classification of feeding methods (mode of nutrition)
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Autotrophic (chemosynthetic, photosynthetic)/heterotrophic (holozoic, saprophytic, parasitic)
: The order of ohmic values in resistors
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Black/brown/red/orange/yellow/green/blue/purple/grey/white.
: Ohms law
Vampires are rare.
Volts = ampere resistance
: The additive and subtractive mixtures of colours in optics
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Blue + green + red = white (additive)
Yellow + magenta + cyan = black (subtractive)
: The order of atomic orbitals
Spin pairs dont form - go higher.
The Pauli selection rule states that two electrons of like spin may not be present in any orbital if they have
the same set of quantum numbers. Since the electronic orbitals in atoms are listed by the letters s, p, d, f,
g, h in order of ascending energy, this mnemonic acts as a useful remainder.
: The prefixes for naming carbon chains
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Meth, eth, prop, but, pent, hex, hept (methane can also be remembered by Me - one person).
: The elements in their correct order in the first three periods of the table
(Hydrogen being omitted and potassium included).
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Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium,
aluminium, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, argon, potassium (H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na,
Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Al, K)
: The third period elements
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Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar
: The bones of the skull
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Occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal, ephnoid, sphenoid.
: The spectral classification sequence (star classes on a stellar evolution diagram)
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or
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or
Only bored astronomers find gratification knowing mnemonics.
The sequence is O, B, A, F, G, K, M (R, N, S) ranging from hot, early type stars (O) to cool, late type stars
(M) (the classes R, N and S are generally no longer used, but appear in most of the mneumonics).
: The direction in which the current flows in a thermocouple made from antimony and bismuth metals
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The current flows from the antimony to the bismuth through the cold junction.
: The first row of transition metals in the periodic table
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Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn