The “among other things” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Developmental biology seems much more relevant to this case.
Now normalize it for population density.
This is why I love the internet.
That mentions something about the Amber codon, maybe that’s it.
It’s useful for lab applications, that’s not the part I’m worried about.
In a lot of languages the word for apple used to refer to all kinds of fruits, particularly new ones from more or less exotic lands. Pineapples also don’t look much like apples, do they?