Mnemonics for in vivo & in vitro?

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This discussion focuses on effective mnemonics for distinguishing between in vivo and in vitro. Participants suggest that "vitro" can be remembered by associating it with "Test Tube," while "vivo" can be linked to the Spanish word for life, emphasizing its connection to living organisms. A notable mnemonic shared is "vivo means alive like Vegas," which reinforces the concept of in vivo being related to life. These mnemonics aim to simplify the understanding of these terms in biological contexts.

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  • Familiarity with basic Spanish vocabulary related to life.
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Are there any good mnemonics for remembering what in vivo & in vitro are?
 
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Vitro has a T- as in Test Tube.

Vivo is Spanish for life/live/etc. I guess that depends on your foreign language background, but that's the obvious way for me.
 
Thanks aroc91.

I actually found another mnemonic. You see there are a whole bucnh of in's as in vivo, in vitro, in silico and in utero etc. The last two are fairly self-explanatory. It's the first two which were most troublesome and coincidentally most important.

Anyway the mnemonic is:

vivo means alive like vegas.

Since I always knew one (of the in's) was in a test tube and the other was in a live organism so it will be easy now to distinguish between the two.
 

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