This is how things should be named. The Germans and the ......Latins.......had the right idea.
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A ton of scientific naming is just describing things in Latin
My favorite one is a Drosophila gene called couch potato:
https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fgenetics%2F131.2.365
Overall Drosophila scientists are quite creative with names
Altough they are kinda counterintuitive as the names typically describe the phenotype when the gene knocked out
Yep, still getting confused everytime I have to deal with eye color (white+ is red and white- is white... I think?)
Also there's sonic hedgehog protien
Yep and a lot of people get it wrong. It's not the "Sonic the Hedgehog protein" but "Sonic hedgehog protein", as in hedgehog protein that is Sonic. It's clearly distinct in meaning, and therefore completely different. As the original discoverer of the gene put it, "original protein name, do not steal".
I hate that I get this joke