The Glycine flag uses the colours white and purple. The larger white square field towards the fly indicates that there are no carbons in the R-Group. In fact only a single hydrogen atom makes up the R-Group. Essentially it is a single amino acid stem COCON with a hydrogen attached to it, make it the Solo Hydro Amino Acid. Amino Acid flag usually dice like pattern in the field but Glycine is blank. If you ever played with a chemistry model kit, hydogens are usually coloured white, thus a blank white field. Likewise white light from the Sun is formed from the fusion of hydrogen into heavier elements.
The purple vertical stripe indicates the letter G, which is the single letter symbol for this amino acid. Why is purple associated with G? Because the seventh colour of the rainbow is purple and the letter G is the seventh letter of the alphabet.
Glycine was discovered in France in the year 1820 by Henri Baconnot. Braconnot was one of the early pioneers who was able to turn wood, cotton, and straw into table sugar. He also discovered that fungi contian chitin.
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