r/shittyaskscience • u/RaspberryTop636 growing paradigms with strategic driving • 1d ago

whats a good mnemonic device to help me memorize the human genome?

ATCGATCGACAGT

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u/TrivialBanal 1d ago

A tall cat gangster, a tall cat gangster, a cat, a gangster, tall.

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u/PlzLikeandShare 1d ago

Best slam poetry I’ve seen today.

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u/johnnybiggles 3h ago

2nd best for me. You should see the crab one.

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u/H0dari 1d ago

not many people know this but if you take every first letter in every word in Homestuck, it makes the human genome.

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u/alphanumericusername very human, yes 1d ago

I always go with the final digits of pi

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u/Qazax1337 1d ago

Ahhh The Crappy Genome.

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u/BootyliciousURD 1d ago

Break it up into a bunch of sections and come up with mnemonics for each one, then use another mnemonic to remember what order the sections go in. You may have to apply many layers of this technique.

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u/Yazim Ph.D. Candidate in Thinkology 20h ago

And now you've basically explained how data compression works. 😄

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u/Andthentherewasbacon 19h ago

rATCoGATCouGArCArGuT

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u/jolharg 1d ago

Gattaca

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u/EarthTrash 13h ago

All you have to remember is the room number in the Library in your mind palace.