# Mnemonics for Biology **URL:** \ **Category:** General Memory Chat\ **Tags:** biology\ **Created:** [February 14, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/mnemonics-for-biology/33764 "2012-02-14T08:11:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![otengam](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@otengam](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/otengam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/mnemonics-for-biology/33764/1 "2012-02-14T08:11:18Z")
I have just recently started studying Biology and have decided to create mnemonics to hopefully make life easier. 5minutes before class I started creating some very basic mnemonics but if anyone has anything to add that would be fantastic. So the first step is to create 1 location where you go when you need this certain information. I created a pile of dirt to help me remember the word organic but you could easily use a heart ( as an organ or something else ) Once you have this location the rest just becomes an easy linking method. Organic Molecules Organic - Picture an ORGAN or a pile of ORGANic dirt or … Molecules - Picture a MOLE (the animal) digging it’s way out of the dirt. Monomers - The mole then jumps onto a motorbike and starts doing a MONO Polymers - He then isn’t watching where he/she is going and crashes into a POLe So pretty pretty much specific monomers make polymers. An extract from a book is at the bottom Monomers ------------------ Polymers Sugars ----------------------- Polysaccharides Amino Acids ---------------- Proteins Fatty Acids ------------------ Fats, Lipids, membranes Nucleotides ----------------- Nucleic Acids Organic molecules are often large molecules made of smaller sub-units that are bonded together in various ways. Compounds formed in this way are called polymers. The sub-units are called monomers. Polymers are classified on the basis of the kind of sub-unit they contain. Nature of Biology Book 2 - Third edition