Amino Acid Lysine Flag: K Flag or Lys Flag

The flag for Lysine uses the common colours of red, white, and blue.  And no, these colours don't run.  But they can dissolve in water.  The square blue field indicates that Nitrogen is present in the R-Group.  There is only one Nitrogen to be exact.  Also the four dots indicate four Carbons in the R-Group.  The patterns also demonstrates the singular long chain structure.

Along the hoist are two vertical red stripes and one thin white stripe.  This pattern refers to the fact that the official single letter symbol for Lysine is K.  Why not 'L'?  Because 'L' is taken by another amino acid: Leucine.  To decode the hoist stripes, K is coded to the number 11 because it is the 11th letter of the alphabet and the number 1 is coded to red.  Why red?  Because the first colour of the standard rainbow is red.  Thus two red stripes symbolize 11.  And white is assigned contrast indicator, so the white stripe brings contrast, otherwise it'd just look one one red block.

K'lysine was discovered in 1902 by two German alchemists Emil Fischer and Fritz Weigert.  Fischer is perhaps more famous for his eponymous Fischer Projections of molecules.  Just think of the those diagrams as having fishing lines between atoms and such.  Emil is also the founder-highest of high alchemists of IUPAC, since it was his idea.

Lysine became famous in 1993 in the movie Jurrasic Park.  It was mentioned as the kill switch, which was a required supplement needed for their survival.  So when they cloned the dinosaurs the Jurassigineers disabled the dinosaurs metabolic ability to make Lysine.  But as you know, nature has a way of overcoming barriers. Life made it to Hawaii long before humans did, after all.