This page is continually being developed as we collect the language examples for the Archive…
“DNA is a knitting pattern for living things…”
“If your DNA is like a recipe book, a mutation is like a typo that causes you to make the wrong dish.”
“Imagine you’re a computer; the hardware is fine but your software needs some attention.”
“The genome is a book…with 23 chapters called chromosomes, where each chromosome contains several thousand stories called genes, where each story is made up of paragraphs called exons which are interrupted by advertisements called introns and every paragraph is made up of words called codons and each word is written in letters called bases.”
Metaphors are constantly used in explanations of medical concepts – in communications between scientists and doctors, doctors and patients, parents and children, family and friends, chlidren and their peers.
So how do we ‘make’ these metaphors? Where do they come from? By collecting your metaphors we can begin to look at the kinds of language and the visual images that are being created and then explore what this might begin to tell us about the ways in which we communicate.
All metaphors and analogies collected will be placed in a language archive which will available to view from this site.