In article <2s9kcp$cqv at mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> jclewley at crc.ac.uk (Dr. J.P. Clewley) writes:
>> Proteinaceous infectious agent.
>> Anyone know why it's not Proin?
>Probably so that it ends in -on; as in codon, operon, muon, transposon,
>etc.
But surely if it's a protein, it should end in -in, not -on; heparin, albumin,
integrins, whatever :)
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