Todays pickGreat Lakes: HOMES → SHAME

Todays pickGreat Lakes: HOMES → SHAME

Mnemonic device

Double the GatorADEs, GUArantee Nine’s purity

Explanation

This is a memorization trick to help you remember the double-ringed purines, Adenine & Guanine. In DNA and RNA, adenine and guanine are the two "purine" bases, built from a double ring of atoms, unlike the single-ringed pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine, and uracil).

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