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Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme

Languages and cultures, like organisms, are constantly evolving. Words, like genes, can come and go–spreading around or going extinct. Here I discuss the spread of one small subset of words that are meant to convey “comprehensiveness” in some way: the “omes” and other words derived from “genome” or...

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Autor principal: Eisen, Jonathan A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-217X-1-6