I've just been spring-cleaning my "My Documents" folder, and came across this article, which was written a few years ago and reproduced in newspaper format for two main purposes
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Well done - I think you've got most of the main points. I don't have the list to hand, but some other errors that come to mind are:
1) Scientific terminology demands that the second part of a "Latin" name (another horrible term) does NOT begin with a capital - thus, E.coli, NOT E.Coli.
2) Human cells, being animal cells, do not have cell walls.
3) Gene therapy does NOT cure the disease, it merely alleviates the symptoms for a while.
4) "Colony" would be the wrong term for the bacteria released into the sewage, since the bacteria present would have come from several bacterial cultures.
5) "Virulent" is a misnomer here - the bacterium is not actually infecting human tissue, merely outcompeting other bacteria.
6) A simple iron-hardened tube does not constitute a "robotic" appendage.
7) The word "breed" is used erroneously, not just to describe DNA replication, but also to describe bacterial multiplication.
8) The components of extracellular matrices might be SECRETED, but never EXCRETED.
I was especially proud of "literally squirts chunks of DNA from one cell to another" - as you noted, this is literally NOT the case. It stands alongside the nauseating term "friendly bacteria", which is straight out of an advertisement for Yakult yoghurt.
1) Scientific terminology demands that the second part of a "Latin" name (another horrible term) does NOT begin with a capital - thus, E.coli, NOT E.Coli.
2) Human cells, being animal cells, do not have cell walls.
3) Gene therapy does NOT cure the disease, it merely alleviates the symptoms for a while.
4) "Colony" would be the wrong term for the bacteria released into the sewage, since the bacteria present would have come from several bacterial cultures.
5) "Virulent" is a misnomer here - the bacterium is not actually infecting human tissue, merely outcompeting other bacteria.
6) A simple iron-hardened tube does not constitute a "robotic" appendage.
7) The word "breed" is used erroneously, not just to describe DNA replication, but also to describe bacterial multiplication.
8) The components of extracellular matrices might be SECRETED, but never EXCRETED.
I was especially proud of "literally squirts chunks of DNA from one cell to another" - as you noted, this is literally NOT the case. It stands alongside the nauseating term "friendly bacteria", which is straight out of an advertisement for Yakult yoghurt.
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