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Could take a page out of the biologist's book. "what's this thing?" Transcriptase - enzyme (-ase) which transcribes - DNA to RNA. "What about this" Reverse tran
by kortex 7y ago
Could take a page out of the biologist's book. "what's this thing?" Transcriptase - enzyme (-ase) which transcribes - DNA to RNA. "What about this" Reverse transcriptase - does the reverse of transcriptase.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme - does exactly what it says on the tin. You can lex it even further:
- Angio - heart (from ango, vessel)
- Tens - from hypertension, vis tendo, tendere, to stretch.
- (-in) - suffix associated with polypeptides:
- Convertere - turn around, from:
- Con - with
- Vert - turn
- En - inside
- Zyme - from zume/zymē - leavened, loosely, biological thing which causes leavening
It just makes so much sense! Lexemes are so cool. Like digging into linguistic source code.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoHow did they get people to agree to it? Mathematical terminology is a crime, but the problem is that it's very hard to get people to coordinate on different terminology.
- zodiac 7y agoWhy not call the DNA to RNA enzyme reverse transcriptase and the RNA to DNA one transcriptase?
- avmich 7y agoWe suffer here from lack of classical education. Greek and Latin would probably help.