Amino Acid Codex Signal Dice

Amino Acids are essentially the Lego's of Life.  There are about 1000 Amino Acids in all, that have been found and artificially added to cells.  But only 22 or proteinogenic.  Usually 20 are exposed to high school biology students.  The elite 22 are directly coded by codons on the mRNA.  Others come about by modification.  Nonetheless these 22 molecules are the animated part of the cell that does much of the work. 

The dots represent the carbon within each Amino Acid.  Except for Proline, Proline is special.  There is always one black sheep in the family.  Likewise there is one Amino Acid that acts differently.  

First of all, a more grounded way to think of Amino Acids is to think of them as Fairy Fibers.  In essence, Fairies are made up of 22 different fibers.  In this analogy Fairies are Proteins.  Thus there are a nearly an infinite number of Fairies that can be made within a cell.  Once a Molecular Fairy is made within a cell it does magic, also known as work.  Some Fairies rearrange chemical bonds with magic wands (active sites), while other Fairies transport materials.  Many Fairies send signals to others, or wear more than one tiara. 

The key is that Fairies in your cells are similar to the Fairies in your cat or the Fairies of a potato.  The Fairies that turn sugar into ATP are similar all across the board from those found in mushrooms to cells of your eye balls.  Remember that Molecular Fairies are made up of amino acids. 

And when they were naming Amino Acids they could have called them Carboxyl Bases.  Or maybe Amino Bases?  Amino-Carboxyl Acid-Bases?  The thing about Amino Acids is that they are both Acids and Bases, kind of like hermaphrodites.  In fact they are called Zwitter Ions, which means Double Gender or Hermaphrodite Ions in German.  So in direct English they are Hermaphroditic Ions, or maybe Gender-Bender Ions, or Inter-Sexed Ions?