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I am an older biochemist, and was taught by even older biochemists, and the mysteries of nomenclature are often based on what might be amusing silliness. I was taught that both aspar”d”ic acid and t”w”yptophan were indeed chosen due to the sound.....but since the nomenclature is determined by an international group it is not likely that that would have been ...
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