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This article contains a list of notable mnemonics used to remember various objects, lists, etc.
== Astronomy == Order of planets from the Sun: (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
obsolete (per the IAU definition of planet): Most Vegetables Eat More Juice So Usually Never Pee My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Potatoes Many Vicious Elephants Met Just Slightly Under New Pineapples My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets Mark's Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Ninety Parakeets Mother Very Eagerly Made A (Asteroids) Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest Many Volcanoes Erupt Molten Jam Sandwiches Usually Not Palatable Since the IAU change the definition of a planet and relegated Pluto to the status of minor planet, the following has gained popularity
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos Stellar classification sequence: O B A F G K M R N S Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart! Revised stellar classification sequence: O B A F G K M L T Y Old, Bald, And Fat Generals Kiss More Ladies Than You Signs of the zodiac:
== Biology ==
To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, [Variety]): "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" is often cited as a non-vulgar method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification of system. Other variations tend to start with the mythical king, with one author noting "The nonsense about King Philip, or some ribald version of it, has been memorized by generations of biology students". Dear King Philip Claps Often For Good Science Dark King Prawns Curl Over Fresh Green Salad Do Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk? Dumb Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Greasy Spinach Do Kindly Place Cover On Fresh Green Spring Vegetables Darn Kernel Panics Crash Our Family Game System Do Keep Pond Clean Or Frog Gets Sick Dumb Kids Play Catch Over Father's Grave Stone Daniel Keeps Philip Cat On Friday Getting Salsa Dumb Kids Pushing Cups Over Feeds Growing Spite To remember the processes that define living things: MRS GREN: Movement; Respiration; Sensation; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition To remember the number of humps on types of camels: D in Dromedary has one hump; B in Bactrian has two To recognize poison ivy Leaves of three, leave it be. Hairy vine, no friend of mine. COWS stand for Cold Opposite Warm Same, which are the relation between the components of the Caloric reflex test To memorise DNA/nucleotide base pairs Tigers Are Great Cats, first letters of the word pairs (T-A, G-C) stand for base pairs. To memorise the types of antibodies GAMED: IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, IgD To memorise the first six fields of sequence match records in a SAM file (Query, Flags, Reference name, Position, Mapping quality, CIGAR): Queen Felicity Rarely Plays Multi-dimensional Chess
== Chemistry ==
To recall the names of the first 20 elements in the periodic table: Harry, he likes beer by cupfuls, not over frothy, never nasty mugs allowed. Since past six closing, are kegs cancelled? (H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar, K, Ca.) To remember the electrodes on which oxidation and reduction occurs (An Ox, Red Cat) An Ox (Oxidation at Anode) Red Cat (Reduction at Cathode)
To remember the different charges of the anode and cathode in electrolysis (PANIC): Positive Anode Negative Is Cathode AN OIL RIG CAT: At the ANode, Oxidation Involves electron Loss. Reduction Involves electron Gain at the CAThode. CHON: to remember the four most common elements in organisms Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen CHNOPS: to remember the six most common elements in organisms Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulfur
== Engineering == For the EIA electronic color code, Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2), Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5), Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8), White(9), Gold(5%), Silver(10%), None(20%)
Big brown rabbits often yield great big vocal groans when gingerly slapped Bad boys run our young girls behind victory garden walls B. B. Roy [of] Great Britain [has] Very Good Wife. A mnemonic to remember which way to turn common (right-hand thread) screws and nuts, including light bulbs, is "Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey"; another is "Right on, Left off". For the OSI Network Layer model Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away correspond to the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation and Application layers. For power in watts: Twinkle twinkle little star, Power equals I (current) squared R (resistance). "ELI the ICE man": E leads the I in an inductor, I leads the E in a capacitor. Useful in power factor correction.