OAT Mnemonics

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Thought I would make a thread like this to maybe help some people..

If you have a mnemonic device that you use for certain things.. Please post.. They may help some people out...

I'll start it off..

ROYGBIV
Vision Spectrum
 
King Phillip Came Over For Great Soup!

Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
 
SEVEN UP

Seminiferous tubule
Epididymus
Vas deferens
Ejaculatory Duct
Nothing
Urethra
Penis
 
Another one you could use for electrons is:

"LEO the lion makes a 'GER' noise"
(LEO= loose electrons oxidized; GER = gain electrons reduced)

Lame but it totally worked for me 😛
 
King TUC (tut) is in a Pyramid - thymine, uracil, cytosine are pyrimidines

Pure AG - adenine and guanine are purines
 
Similar to the previous post:

I could never remember which ones were purines and pyrimidines until my teacher came up with this:

PU AG (PUrines: Adenine Guanine)
PY CT U (PYrimidines: Cytosine and Thyamine (DNA)/Uracil (RNA)

You say it like "Poo AG Picked You"

And I always remember that the smaller word has the double ring (purines) and pyrimidines have only one ring.
 
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Km Hm Dm (m) dm cm mm

Metric prefixes
also use with grams, etc.
 
Similar to the previous post:

I could never remember which ones were purines and pyrimidines until my teacher came up with this:

PU AG (PUrines: Adenine Guanine)
PY CT U (PYrimidines: Cytosine and Thyamine (DNA)/Uracil (RNA)

You say it like "Poo AG Picked You"

And I always remember that the smaller word has the double ring (purines) and pyrimidines have only one ring.

You CUT the "py" (pie)
This means that the other two, AG, are obviously not "py."
 
For which elements hydrogen bonding occurs with:

Hydrogen bonding occurs on the FON (sounds like phone): Fluorine, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.
 
CAP RAS

Capacitors Add when Parallel (Parallel) Ceq=C1+C2+C3+...
Resistors Add when in Series (Series) Req=R1+R2+R3+...



Then you can either remember that the other type for both is adding the reciprocals or shorten it again



CRS RRP
Capacitors add Reciprocal for Series (Series) (1/Ceq)= (1/C1)+(1/C2)+(1/C3)+...
Resistors add Reciprocal when Parallel (Parallel) (1/Req)=(1/R1)+(1/R2)+(1/R3)+...
 
Diatomic elements anyone? (dont know if this is important for OATs)

"I" "H"ave "O"ne "Cl"oset "F"or "N"ine "Br"ooms

or

I Bring clay for our new home
 
Here's some:

for Q=MC (change in) T
I thought when change in T was a triangle the word looked like Q= MCAT. That ended up helping me with that.

Also for the Lorentz Force Law I had a weird, Star Trek one:
F=qVBsin(x)
Fans Queue (for) Vulcan Beauties.
Yeah... I'm a nerd.

For oxidation/reduction and anodes/cathodes:
An Ox; Red Cat
Anode Oxidation; Reduction Cathode
 
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