And the answer is……
Margaret
Dingdingdingdingding!
Actually Dalek and fisherbear got pretty dang close.
Shawn doesn’t count because, as he said, he already knew what the word meant.
Andrew, who doesn’t really count in these quizzes because he lives with me and often hears me muttering, or shouting depending on the situation and the subject of study, actually looked up the etymology and came up with a bit that even *I* didn’t know.
DIPHYODONT
A critter with two sets of teeth. Most mammals fit in this category, but critters like horses, and rodents are brachydonts which means that the primary teeth they’re born with are the teeth that they live with their entire lives.
People are diphyodonts, cats and dogs and bats are diphyodonts because we have a set of primary teeth that erupt within a certain period of time after we’re born and are shed as we mature.
Andrew reports that the fragment diphy means “to move forward” which, if you think about how primary teeth are lost because the permanent teeth push them out of the way, makes damn good sense.
So grape jelly (or currant if you so desire 😀 ) all around.
Today’s word of the week is: EPITOPE.
Not anywhere near as fun as diphyodont, but much more relevant to the current topic of study.
Only 87 pages more to go before Thursday…..SIGH.
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April 19th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Umm I “Shawn” never said anything… I think some one maybe a super hero or sumpthin named “De-Evolved Man” made some claims…. yes….. He is not I and I is not him… Yesss
By the way I think an Epitope is an Eppy pen for Antelopes who ate too much shrimp at the “Home-on-the-Planes dim-sum palace”… just a hunch.
April 21st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I get something like ‘gap in the outside’ (if I’m willing to pretend that the ‘c’ in ‘syncope’ doesn’t matter.)
April 27th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Oh bother, more Greek. Bleh! (But yay on the jam-win! I bet fisherbear would love more blackcurrant.)
Well, lessee. Epi, epistemiology, epidermis, the epidermis is the outer layer of skin (dermis), so I’ll go with outer. -tope, the closest I can think of is topography and topiary and topology, two of three have to do with places. Also heliotrope, which is “sun-follower” (gardening for the win, again!) but probably not relevant with the ‘r’. So I’ll go with “outer place” although gods only know if I’m even close to the ballpark. Given that you were studying encocriniology several weeks ago, you’ve probably moved on to neurology or immunology or scapulmency for all I know. 😉
Are the cats uteruses telling you it’s spring?
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I do belive that an epitome is that weird part of a biomolecule that is the target of an antibody response, an antigenic determinant.