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08-26-2005 2:45 PM

Re: the use of esoteric vocabulary
In Message 7, robinrohan wrote:
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Everyone has their field. The postal clerk has his field. The auto mechanic has his field. I have my field. You have your field. But if we cannot communicate across these fields, we are in trouble. It closes the field off to only those "elites" who are in the field.
Effective communication is hard work. Those who are unwilling to work at it will not easily succeed.
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I agree that it is bad to use technical language to excess. But sometimes it cannot be avoided. For example, you cannot fully understand the biological processes involved in evolution without knowing something about meiosis, and how that differs from mitosis. It would be too verbose to fully describe the process every time. It is better to use the technical term when that is appropriate.
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08-26-2005 3:45 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by robinrohan
08-26-2005 3:25 PM

Re: Meiosis and Mitosis
Something like in meiosis the number of chromosomes get split in half whereas in mitosis the whole thing gets reproduced.
Yes, that's part of it. Then there is an interesting thing called a crossover that can occur. In effect, genes can move from one chromosome to the other chromosome in that pair. There is mixing up of the genes preparatory to forming the eggs or sperm. Think of it as genetic engineering.
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08-26-2005 4:54 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by robinrohan
08-26-2005 4:27 PM

Re: Significance?
That's right.
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