DDR and Genetics

Dance Dance Revolution teaches a little bit of genetics. Awesome! Still, teenagers nowadays don't value science that much, preferring engineering, medicine or health-care careers.

Meanwhile, let's see if I can't recall at least ten amino acids: glycine, cysteine, valine, proline, trytophan, asparagine, aspartate, glutamine, glutamate, leucine, tyrosine, ... uh, eleven is all I can recall. I must memorize them all and remember their properties, whether they're polar, non-polar, or ionic.

I might have mentioned this before, but that glutamate, it's the same thing as MSG. Monosodium glutamate is a salt form, but glutamate is also a building block of polypeptide. However, it's not an essential nutrition because your body can make glutamic acid.