I swear, my vocabulary is expanding exponentially as I work at this job. It's boring as hell, but my vocabulary is not suffering. No sir.
So a guy was talking to my boss today and starts saying things about "heterobifunctional" something or others. Honestly, I didn't hear another word out of his mouth after he said "heterobifunctional" because my mind, of its own accord, started coming up with definitions of the word.
I basically came up with this, it's golden, no kidding: "Someone who is basically a heterosexual individual, but, if the conditions are right, can swing the other way should the need arise. They are probably not very good at it. They are just functional."
Eh? That was the very first thing that popped into my head.
But, in reality, the word is not nearly so interesting as that, it just means Crosslinkers with different reactive groups at either end, enabling sequential conjugation between two different functional groups in proteins and other molecules.
Not overall a fun definition.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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