The mnemonics to easily remember different types of amino acids are listed below. Medical Students can use these tricks to recall the names of Amino acids whenever needed.
1) Basic
Tricks to Remember: Loves His Art
- Lysin
- Histidine
- Arginine
2) Acidic
Tricks to Remember: As Glue
- Aspartic acid
- Glutamic acid
3) Polar
Tricks to Remember: Serina Threw her Cyster (sister) to Get Asparagus.
- Serine
- Threonine
- Cysteine
- Glycine
- Asparagine
4. Aromatic
Tricks to remember: Phenyl-Ty Tyre
- Phenylalanine
- Tryptophan
- Tyrosine
5. Non Polar
Tricks to remember – Professor Leucy Is Already at Valley Ground to Meet him.
- Proline
- Leucine
- Isoleucine
- Alanine
- Glycine
- Methionine