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Title: LAT Thu. 11/12 Kelsey Blakley
Post by: magus on November 12, 2009, 08:31:22 AM

Mitochondrial references aside, I don't have much good to say about this Thursday offering except that I cannot believe the abbreviation for turnpike is TPKE.  Why would a silent, final e ever be used in an abbreviation?  Yet TPKE is in dictionaries, and I know I have seen it used in the real world.   :-\

Title: Re: LAT Thu. 11/12 Kelsey Blakley
Post by: RickNovy on November 12, 2009, 02:50:28 PM

I have an issue with 64A.  A fingerprint is NOT a DNA sequence.  Clue-FAIL.

Title: Re: LAT Thu. 11/12 Kelsey Blakley
Post by: magus on November 13, 2009, 11:14:40 AM

You're right, but DNA is sometimes referred to as a "human fingerprint."  That is probably so because, like fingerprits, each person's DNA is said to be different; and, like fingerprints, DNA strands are used to identify people.