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- Hi Ted. Yes, I had exactly the same response when she was stumped when asked what the word "basal" means (did the hosts not know either, or did they just go along?).
I bet you're right that her teachers/professors just didn't expect to need to explain the meaning of such a common word. For some reason it makes me nervous that young scientists (or at least one of them) are able to speak well about the intricacies of human and mouse brain functions, but have never taken a few seconds to parse out what 'basal,' a word used frequently in and out of scientific discourse, actually means.
