• Question: what is your favourite science word

    Asked by to Claire, Ian, Sergey, Vicky, Zena on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Claire Shooter answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      ‘Pulmonary’

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      Sergey Lamzin answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Alien!

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      Vicky Schneider answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      water…air…everything is a science word? potentially…

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      Ian Simpson answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      There are so many cool words in Science…

      “pleiotropic” we use it to describe the effects of a gene when that gene affects lots of different and sometimes apparently unrelated things. This is normally because the gene has many functions which often change throughout development or even during adult life.

      I also quite like the word “isoschizomer” which is used to describe different enzymes that recognise the same DNA sequence as a target to cut.

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