Amino Acid

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"Amino Acids are the building blocks of life."

Amino Acid
Habitat	Primordial Soup
Type	Life Primordial
Generator Stats
Base Cost	Entropy 20
Base Production	Entropy 0.1/sec
Requires	Primordial Soup
Chronology
Next	DNA

Amino Acid is the 1st Life and the 1st Primordial Soup generator obtained in the Primary Simulation's Main Tree, which can generate Entropy Entropy.

Design

This generator has the design of an aspartic acid molecule, with four carbon particles, four oxygen particles, six hydrogen particles, and a nitrogen particle. It belongs in the Primordial Soup garden, where it floats around freely. Tapping on the Amino Acid prompts a bubbly sound.

Description

"Atoms and molecules bond together to create amino acids, organic compounds that combine to build proteins. They are some of the most essential building blocks for life."

Upgrades

Amino Acid has 4 upgrades, increasing the generator efficiency with a total x6.96192e13 multiplier.

Icon	Name	Description	Cost	Efficiency	Requires
	RNA	RNA is responsible for transferring genetic code from the nucleus to ribosomes to make proteins. It controls gene expression and regulation.	Entropy 175	x2	Nucleotides DNA
	Volcano	The carbon dioxide produced by erupting prehistoric volcanoes warmed the Earth, and was a major catalyst in making Earth habitable in its early stages of development.	Entropy 650	x3.5	Primordial Soup Nucleotides
	Enzymes	To produce a reaction, you must first have a catalyst. Enzymes act as the trigger for biochemical reactions. They are necessary to kickstart the metabolic processes that sustain life.	Entropy 1,000	x222	Amino Acid Research Level 1
	Polypeptides	When amino acids bond together, they create a chain that becomes an integral building block in creating proteins.	Entropy 5.34 E31 sci-end 53.4 No 53.4 FF	x4.48E+10	Protein Research Level 21

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	Requires
	Amino Origins	In 1806, French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered.	50 Amino Acid
	Acids, Acids Everywhere	A complete protein is a food source that contains an adequate proportion of each of the nine essential amino acids necessary in the human diet.	100 Amino Acid
	Acid Trip	What do you call an acid with an attitude? An A—Mean—Oh acid!	250 Amino Acid
	Peptide Bonding	When you combine two common amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, they create the artificial sweetener aspartame. This is commonly found in sugar-free and diet sodas.	500 Amino Acid
	Protein Chain	9 amino acids that are essential for human life cannot be produced naturally by the human body, and thus must be consumed as food.	1000 Amino Acid

Trivia

• The Achievement "Acids, Acids Everywhere" is a reference to an Internet meme 'X, X everywhere' with its origins from Toy Story 2.
• The Achievement "Acid Trip" also references the hallucinogenic experience from taking LSD.