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Posted: October 25, 2012 |
So, a team of biologists at Duke University have classified a genus of fern in honor of pop star Lady Gaga.
The biologists made the decision initially based off its DNA sequence — guanine, adenine, guanine, adenine. No mystery there.
But as they looked deeper into the genus, they realized that amongst the nineteen different species that they took on some of the characteristics reminiscent of Gaga.
Kathy Pryer, a professor of biology at Duke, had this to say:
We wanted to name this genus for Lady Gaga because of her fervent defense of equality and individual expression. And as we started to consider it, the ferns themselves gave us more reasons why it was a good choice. |
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