What do most people say for “Name an amino acid”?

The usual first answers are Glycine, Alanine and Leucine. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name an amino acid”?

34 in all: 3 on The Tip, 7 Below the Surface, 10 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name an amino acid” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “GABA” and the longest is “Selenocysteine”.

Chemistry trivia

Name an amino acid

Everyone has a first answer to “Name an amino acid”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 34 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Glycine
Alanine
Leucine

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Lysine
Valine
Isoleucine
Tryptophan
Tyrosine
Phenylalanine
Glutamine

How deep does “Name an amino acid” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	7	25
The Deep	10	50
The Abyss	13	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 10 answers starting with A, C, G, H, M, P, S and T. The Abyss has 13 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

34 answers in total, 3 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “GABA”. Longest: “Selenocysteine”.
T, A and G are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Aspartate” counts as Aspartic acid.

Getting below the surface

Start with T: 5 of the answers begin with it.
Glycine, Alanine and Leucine are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Named reactions and techniques often carry the chemist’s name.

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Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name an amino acid”?: The usual first answers are Glycine, Alanine and Leucine. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name an amino acid”?: 34 in all: 3 on The Tip, 7 Below the Surface, 10 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name an amino acid” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “GABA” and the longest is “Selenocysteine”.

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