The Alanine flag uses the colours white, red, and black. The field is black and has a single white dot that indicates the number of carbon atoms in the R-Group. It is a fairly simple amino acid. You could even call it the Methane of Amino Acids. Along the hoist are two vertical stripes that are coded in colour metrics to the letter A, which is the one letter ID of Alanine. Alanine's three letter abbreviation is Ala.
Alanine was first discovered in Germany, when California became a state in 1850, by Adoph Strecker. Coincidentally the colours of Alanine match the flag of German Empire, which came into official existence the same year Adolph died in 1871.
An easy way to understand Amino Acids is think of them as Fairy Fibers. There are 22 fundamental Fairy Fibers encoded by RNA. When you assemble these Fibers in a certain order they create little magical Fairies inside living cells, that do work-magic. So in this analogy, Fairies are Proteins. And what makes up Proteins? Amino Acids, whoops, I meant to say Fairy Fibers. Basically the Proteins in your bodies are like little Fairies.
So what do these molecular fairies do? They can smash chemical bonds, they can send signals, they rearrange chemical bonds, some help transport things, some wear more than one hat. There are some molecular fairies that work in a team. Bottom line is, there are nearly an infinite variety of fairies. However, all fairies across the known universe are made up of 22 fundamental Fairy Fibers, scientifically known as Amino Acids. Also note fairies don't work, it is known as play and dance in their view of the universe. So right now there are about 12,234 quad-trillion billion fairy parties going on across all your cells. Their electrical-alchemical dance is what makes life possible.
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