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  • Alaik@lemmy.zip
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    Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    That look, “what you doing?”.

  • iuly20_07@lemmy.world
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    The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.

    • SirQuack@feddit.nl
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      Soon that will be ‘to ever have gorrilaed’.

      Wikipedia screenshot; "The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)"

      ^(source)

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:

    • “water-water” - flat water
    • “water” - anything else
  • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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    OP missed a good opportunity to title this post “goriginallity”

    • And009@lemmynsfw.com
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      Disgusted slow clap

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

    Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for…bear.

    It’s the bear bear bear!

    Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”

    • Pringles@lemm.ee
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      I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it’s been one of favorite facts for several years 😄

        Anyways, thanks for the correction, I’ll go ahead and edit it 😁

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

      • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
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        But isn’t Ursa Major a bear?

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          no, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!

          • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
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            They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
            They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Lunar’s the loony, I’M the hippie!

            Would you say that she’s the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?

        • Pringles@lemm.ee
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          Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that’s named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.

        The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

        That’s what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!

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      You’re fucking kidding me

      I’m renaming the arctic from now on

      • Silverchase@sh.itjust.works
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        Bearritory

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world
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      I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control

      • GiveOver@feddit.uk
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        My junior’s commit messages look like this image. There’s always a way.

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          The Gen Z translation is “Gorilla fr” and “Gorilla frfr”

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    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

      see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla

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      Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me

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    gorilla together stronger

  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?

    Edit: it’s not, it’s the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Also, here’s a graphic for y’all to enjoy:

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    If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.

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    Maybe at some point we’ll have version control for all DNA mapping so each minor change is a commit hash and each major release is a tag

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      We do, the major versions have tag releases like mm7, mm8, mm9, etc. as defined by the current build, and minor patch releases too like mm10p14 as new sequences come in.

      https://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/mm10/bigZips/

      Example, say you have 5 sequences: CAT, ATC, ATCG, CGT, and ATATA.

      One way of combining them up together to build a transcriptome is like this:

      5 sequences:     ATATA
                     CG-T  ATC
                   ATCG CAT
      
        Reference: ATCGATATATC
      

      ATCGATATATC isn’t the only solution to these sequences, but as you get more sequences to try and overlap, the more the uncertainty goes down

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    “That one to left, that’s the most gorilla that can ever gorilla. Look how hard it’s gorillaing! Name it accordingly.”

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    I mean, just look at 'em

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      10/10 gorilla

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