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  2. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...

  3. Cherimoya - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from the Quechua word chirimuya, which means "cold seeds". The plant grows at high altitudes, where the weather is colder, and the seeds will germinate at higher altitudes. [ 3 ] In Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, the fruit is commonly known as chirimoya (spelled according to the rules of the Spanish ...

  4. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, *mr̥tós meaning ' mortal ', so in Armenian mard, Persian mard, Sanskrit marta and Greek βροτός meaning ' mortal, human '. This is comparable to the Semitic word for ' man ' , represented by Arabic insan إنسان (cognate with Hebrew ʼenōš אֱנוֹשׁ‬ ), from a root for ...

  5. Girls Will Be Girls (2024 film) - Wikipedia

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    Girls Will Be Girls is a 2024 coming-of-age drama film, written and directed by Shuchi Talati. [1] [2] [3] It stars Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, and Kesav Binoy Kiron. [4]An Indian and French co-production, the film is Talati's feature directorial debut, as well as the acting debut of both Panigrahi and Kiron. [5]

  6. List of organisms named after famous people (born before 1800 ...

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    "The species name refers to the Pachacútec, the fifth [sic, actually fourth] King of Inca civilization, who was the most powerful emperor of them" [170] Electrophorus voltai de Santana et al., 2019: Electric eel: Alessandro Volta: Capable of discharges of up to 860 V, this species is the strongest bioelectricity generator known to science. [171]

  7. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The second part of a binomial is often a person's name in the genitive case, ending -i (masculine) or -ae (feminine), such as Kaempfer's tody-tyrant, Hemitriccus kaempferi. The name may be converted into a Latinised form first, giving -ii and -iae instead. Words that are very similar to their English forms have been omitted.

  8. Dasepo Naughty Girls - Wikipedia

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    Dasepo Naughty Girls (Korean: 다세포 소녀; RR: Dasepo sonyo; lit. Dasepo Girl; Multi-cell Girl) is a 2006 South Korean musical comedy film. [ 2 ] It is based on the popular webtoon Dasepo Girls by B-rate Dalgung (Chae Jeong-taek), which has also been adapted into a TV series.

  9. Nomen novum - Wikipedia

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    In biological nomenclature, a nomen novum (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name [1]) is a scientific name that is created specifically to replace another scientific name, but only when this other name cannot be used for technical, nomenclatural reasons (for example because it is a homonym: it is spelled the same as an existing ...