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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 1395351" data-attributes="member: 11697">Well it's true that at least for naming genes there's no standard nomenclature. You discover a gene and you get to name it more or less what you want to name it. There's a standard for what a gene is named as compared to what protein it might produce to distinguise if you're referring to gene or protein in a paper. However there's proteins named anything from SonicHedgehog (SHH), to FoxC1, to BZLF1, to BRLF1 (the latter two being my neck of the woods for work). You can name them whatever you want to an extent, and this leads to problems later on when people are working with other genes/proteins that have interactions with those. It can be hard to remember them all when oftentimes the name has little relation to function.*shrugs* This is what's fun about Enworld, as opposed to the WotC boards. A question gets asked like in this thread here and you've got PhD's springing out of the woodwork to answer it here (or those of us working on PhD's but not there yet). On WotC you just have an overabundance of 11 year olds who love Pokemon and have algebra homework.*smile*</blockquote>