biologists stop naming things in ways that cause people to freak out challenge (impossible)pic.twitter.com/6Tud14jvbB
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Am I bad person for chuckling now?
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Half the issue is that luciferin and luciferase were both discovered in the late 19th Century, when anyone looking into obscure chemicals would have known enough Latin to get the reference, which is a bit different from the dumb video game joke.
Tbf, they have come up with some funny shit.pic.twitter.com/gJsc6GNnV0
BBC Radio 4 had a programme a few years ago entirely about humorous gene names, interviewing biologists about why they'd been chosen
E.g. 'cheap date' (gene which makes a fruit fly very sensitive to alcohol)
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