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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Uracil Flag - The U Flag

The flag for Uracil has an orange field with a black hexagon in the center.  The hexagon represents the purine base of Uracil. Likewise the dots closer to the orange field represent the hydrogen bonding atoms of Uracil.  The upper red dot represents oxygen and the lower white dot represents hydrogen.  Towards the hoist the upper white dot represents hydrogen and the lower blue dot represents nitrogen.  Uracil makes hydrogen bonds only with Adenine, in the process of protein genesis or molecular fairy genesis.

White is associated with hydrogen because hydrogen fusion at the Sun produces white light.  Red is associated with oxygen because oxygenated blood is bright red.  Blue is associated with nitrogen because it is the primary component of the blue sky.

Uracil is the odd nucleotide not found in DNA.  Uracil also has a funny story to its name.  It was named before it was discovered.  Kind of like California.  California was supposed to be a legendary island of black amazons.  But California is not an island, yet there are a few tall, super strong African-American females that populate the state.

By harmonious fate, the outsider nucleotide, was last to be discovered in 1900 by Albert Ascoli when he was playing with yeast.  Adult play is known as work, and is very serious business.  But a generation earlier in 1885 a German by the name of Bobby B, coined the term Uracil when playing with Uric Acid.  So in the way of families, Uracil is the child of Uric Acid.  Coincidentally Uric Acid is the same age as the USA.  Both were 'created' in 1776.  However, Uric Acid was created by the ultimate underdog of scientists:  Carl Wilhelm Scheele.    Mr. Scheele discovered five elements but does not get credit, because he published them late.  Scheles's firstly discovered but uncredited elements were: Tungsten, Molybdenum, Barium, hydrogen, and chlorine.

As for the grandfather of Uracil, it is Urea.  Urea was discovered in the Netherlands by Herman Boerhaave in 1727.  So in summation Grampi Urea was born in 1727, then Daddy Uric Acid in 1776, and finally the grandson of Uracil in 1900.

Since Urea was discovered from urine, this lends a few corny nick names for Uracil: Peeacil, Wizzacil, Slashacil,  Leakacil, Numberwonacil, Soucil (Chinese), Peshaabacil (Hindi पेशाब), Vizelacil (Hungarian), Kencingacil (Indonesian), Nyoacil (Japanese 尿), Ojumacil (Korean 오줌), Mutracil (Nepalese), Sheesacil (Mongolian), Moczacil (Polish), Mochacil (Russian моча), Kaadidacil (Somali),  Mkojacil (Swahili), Pasawacil (Thai ปัสสาวะ), Shtacil (Hebrew), Zaaracil (Kyrgyz заара), Prasabacil (Bangala প্রস্রাব) Slapimacil (Lithuanian), Bulacil (Arabic), Peepeeacil, and Tinkleacil.

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