The Methionine flag uses the colours red, yellow, black and mustard-yellow. The vertical stripes along the hoist refer to letter M, which is the single letter abbreviation for this amino acid. The letter M is represented by red and yellow since these two colours make up the number 13 in colour metrics and M is the 13th letter in the alphabet. Red is the first colour of the rainbow, so it represents 1. Yellow is the third colour of the rainbow, so it represents 3.
Methionine has sulfur in its R-Group. Consequently the field in mustard-yellow. Pure sulfur power is yellow, and if you ever smelled that rotten egg smell, it is due to this amino acid. These sulfur amino acids make up proteins in our hair, and if ever got a perm you would have smelled that eggy stink. It comes about in the breaking of sulfur bonds in ones hair.
Methionine is famous in biology class because the codon is a START signal to create a new protein from the 22 known amino acids; or rather a protein-fairy from the known 22 fairy fibers. Once the protein (fairy) is finished it will do cellular magic and make life possible.
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