That gene as the wiki article notes is an example of why generally things in the medical community need to be given serious sounding names. No one wants to hear that the thing killing or making their child unwell has a silly name.
On the other hand, you can get so serious that it becomes comical again. Much laughs were had in 5th grade about the endoplasmatic reticulum, out of no reason beyond being a 5th grader. On the other hand, that's one of the only cell parts I still remember.
Even better: I called one of my classmates a homo sapien, he went to the teacher and complained (he thought it meant he was gay) and the teacher said "you are a homo sapien". Ah, 6th grade, good times.
"Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be decided by code-words [...] of a frivolous character, such as 'Bunnyhug' and 'Ballyhoo.'"
