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A comment on DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014). Parent comment

Re:DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014) by eurasiantiger on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:02AM (#28263271)
”Transform” is commonly used in the context of data wrangling.
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Re:DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014) by alisonkisk on Sunday August 22, 2021 @12:41PM (#28266955)
Which is exactly the same wrong metaphor that the article is talking about. A transformation in data processing is a transcription in biochemistry creating something new without destroying the original), not a transformation in biochemistry (which destroys the original).
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