Biology
- To remember the order of taxa in biology:
- Dumb Kids Prefer Candy Over Fancy Green Salad (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
- Dumb Kids Playing Catch On Freeway Get Squashed. (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
- "Dear King Philip Come Over For Good Spaghetti" is often cited as a (clean) method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification system. Other variations tend to start with the mythical king, with one author noting "The nonsense about King Philip, or some ribald version of it, has been memorized by generations of biology students."
- "King Plays Chess On Fat Girl's Stomach"
- "Kinky People Can Often Find Great Sex"
- To remember the lifecycle of cells:
- Intergalactic Plasma Man Abducted The Captain (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis)
- Idiotic Penguins Make Antarctica Too Cold (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis)
- I Pee More After Tea Constantly (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis)
- To remember the processes that define living things:
- MRS GREN: Movement; Respiration; Sensation; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition
Read more about this topic: List Of Mnemonics
Famous quotes containing the word biology:
“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”
—Rachel Carson (1907–1964)