What's New

reduced the size of the view to make the images sharper and clearer for the Side Chain to Name Quiz, Proline Properties Quiz and Side Chain to All Names Quiz.

App Description

Amino Acid Side Chain Tutor is an app designed to help you memorize the structures, names, chemical properties and features of each of the twenty amino acids.

It does this by emphasizing the features of the side chains as opposed to the structure common to all amino acids.

The structures are displayed in color to help memorize each atom in the side chain. There is special emphasis on learning which side chains have which atomic elements, which have cyclic structures, single bonds, double bonds and how many carbon atoms are in each side chain.

You will learn which amino acid is polar, non polar, positively charged or negatively charged. You will learn the the single letter and three letter shorthand codes for each amino acid.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • May 04, 2017 Initial release
  • June 14, 2019 New version 1.2.1
  • June 22, 2019 New version 1.2.2
  • July 15, 2020 New version 1.2.3
  • September 16, 2023 New version 1.4.1