Chemistry vs. Biology: The Classification Wars

Chemistry vs. Biology: The Classification Wars
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The chemistry-biology rivalry continues. Top panel: IUPAC chemists sitting in perfect order around a circular table, calmly discussing how to name some theoretical compound with 47 carbon atoms and functional groups that only exist in computer simulations. Bottom panel: Biologists literally brawling in the dirt because they can't agree if two nearly identical frogs that mated once in captivity constitute separate species or not. Chemists have a systematic naming convention; biologists have chaos and occasional fistfights behind the natural history museum.

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