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Uncommon card · Science
Glycine, an Uncommon card
Glycine is an organic compound with the formula C2H5NO2, and is the simplest stable amino acid, distinguished by having a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 166
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 166 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Glycine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Glycine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In the body, glycine plays several ______ roles.
Answer
crucial. In the body, glycine plays several crucial roles. From the Glycine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lambert W function. Lambert W function 84 · Vitamin 81 · Glycine 76 · Injera 72 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As one of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids, glycine is a fundamental building block of proteins in all life and is encoded by all codons starting with GG.
- Because of its minimal side chain, it is the only common amino acid that is not chiral, meaning it is superimposable on its mirror image.
- In the body, glycine plays several crucial roles.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Glycine article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Glycine
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Glycine in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Ground slothUncommon · Nature · ATK 78 DEF 88
- HebeiUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 84
- InjeraUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 94
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Glycine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vectorization: Alhadis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
