Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile (and punning) in popular science writing:
"The technique was crude: they mushed fly bodies into a paste, isolated their DNA, put the mixture in a gel, and added their gene with a dye. The idea was that the gene would act like molecular flypaper and attach to every gene with a similar sequence."
Neil Shubin
Shubin, N. (2020). Some Assembly Required. Decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to DNA. Oneworld Publications.
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