museum designations

[John McNeill]

AT 9:34 AM on 10/12/98, "JOSEPH E. LAFERRIERE"
<josephl at AZTEC.ASU.EDU> wrote in reply to me:

>>>The term "Codon," coined to parallel the arbitrary term "taxon."
>>>might be useful if this did not already have another meaning in
>>>biochemistry. [Laferriere]

>>Are you not confusing "codon" with "culton?" [McNeill]

>No, not at all. I have never heard the word "culton." A
>codon is a sequence of three nucleotides. Every freshman
>knows that.

What has the coining of well-known term "codon", got to do with "taxon"? --
"culton" is the term that WAS deliberately coined to parallel "taxon" (cf the
references to _Taxon_ 44: 161-175 and _Hortax News_ 1(4): 9-22)

John McNeill

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