Meme terminology compared with gene terminology

As part of my Memetics Glossary project, I put together some lists which illustrate the parellels between memetics terminology, and terminology from biology. Here are the lists:

Meme-gene analogy Memetic Genetic Meme Gene Memes Genes Memetic Genetic Memetics Genetics Memeticist Geneticst Meme expression Gene expression Meme regulation Gene regulation Meme flow Gene flow Meme pool Gene pool Meme therapy Gene therapy Meme's eye view Gene's eye view Memealogy Genealogy Memetic algorithms Genetic algorithms Memetic drift Genetic drift Memetic engineering Genetic engineering Memetic evolution Genetic evolution Memetic program Genetic program Memetic hitchhiking Genetic hitchhiking Memetic linkage Genetic linkage Memetic drive Genetic drive Memetic takeover Genetic takeover Memetic testing Genetic testing Memetic pollution Genetic pollution Memetic load Genetic load Memotype Genotype Memesis Genesis Ontomemy Ontogeny Phylomemy Phylogeny Phylomemetics Phylogenetics Quantitative memetics Quantitative genetics Memetic code Genetic code Population memetics Population genetics Pseudomemes Pseudogenes Eumemics Eugenics Dysmemics Dysgenics

Meme-virus analogy Memetic Genetic Retromemes Retrovirus Latent meme Virus latency Meme load Viral load Meme shedding Virus shedding Meme entry Viral entry Persistent meme infection Persistent viral infection     Umbrella terms Memetic and genetic Evolution Species Lineage Mutation The "umbrella terms" are usable in both organic and cultural realms. There are many more terms like these. DNA analogy Memetic Genetic Memetic junk Junk DNA Recombinant memes Recombinant DNA Irregular terms Memetic Genetic Memeplex Gene complex Allelomeme Allele Vaccime Vaccine Ideosphere Biosphere Phemotype Phenotype Sociotype Phenotype Meme warfare Biological warfare Library Gene bank Genetic-only terms Genetic Transcription Locus Base pair Supergene     Memetic-only terms Memetic Genetic Memetic driving - Supermeme - Internet meme - Meme laundering - Memejacking -

A few things are worth noting here. There are quite a few terms from genetic that have direct parallels in memetics - and which are based on the gene-meme parallel.

I think this helps to illustrate the value of the parallel. It also illustrates some of what you are missing if you don't use the meme terminology.

One of the other points of the exercise - from my perspective - was to identify some of the less regular terminology, so decisions can be made about what to do with it.

From the "Irregular terms" section - we have "Memeplex" - but there is no "Geneplex" - but there should be!

For some of my proposals for fixing the irregularities, see the page: More regular terminology for genetics and memetics.