• Question: What is your favourite Sciencie word?

    Asked by fayesedg to Cat on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Cat O'Connor answered on 21 Jun 2011:


      Hi Fayesedg,

      Hope you liked the chat earlier. It goes so quick right?

      Right now I like Oligonucleotides…it kinda just rolls of the tongue right? At school I loved the qord phloem! And i know this is quite sad, but I love names of bacteria like Streptococcus equi zooepidemicus (this bug is carried normally by horses but on rare cases can cause infection and even death in animals and humans!) and Mycobacterium pennipedii (that’s like a relation to the bug I study that infects seals).

      What’s your favourite sciencey word?

      Cat

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