its a biology kinda thing...?

Question

In biology, why are all the words so similar, ie meiosis and mitosis?

didnt the retard that came up with these words not realise that some people are gonna have to learn them words? talk about taking inconsideration to whole new level!

huh!

Answer 1

i spose it was to make them look smarter, if they were talking with all their nerds friends and they said "meiosis" when the answer was clearly mitosis they called always 'claim' thats what they said, they were simply misheard

Answer 2

It gets even worse. A lot of the older scientists name proteins based on their weight. That's why you'll find names like "p51." The younger scientists tend to come up with cooler names.

One discovered a protein involved in villi (the little finger-like projections from some cells), so it was named "villin." Some other researchers took it a step further when they found a large form and named it "supervillin." The form that cross-links villin together was dubbed "archvillin."

Drosophila (fruit fly) researchers have fun with the names too. There are two genes, when disrupted, that lower alcohol resistance (the fruit flies get drunk easily). The genes were named "Lightweight" and "Cheapdate."

Answer 3

while you're speaking in terms of a profession, you could maximum even have the two or the two. In a laboratory/learn putting in biology, to illustrate, there can frequently be an limitless volume of chemistry in contact. Biochemistry is a appropriate occasion of those 2 sciences mixed jointly, yet there are a number of, many fields that combine the two. the perfect way so you might confirm whether you would be drawn to being in contact in one or the two fields is to start up taking instructions as quickly as you're in a position to. yet, undergo in ideas that there are a number of fields interior of the two chemistry and biology, so purely when you consider which you do no longer take place to love one classification/subject remember, do no longer rule out the sector as an entire!

Answer 4

because the prefixes in some words mean something that's similar to another word.

i know how you feel.. it really is hard to memorize the terms.

good luck with that! :)

Answer 5

there really is a "reason" for why things are named what they are. The words have latin origins. "Bio", means "life". "Ology" is the "study of".

Answer 6

heh yea, i guess so...but they both mean different things i guess...