what is in a name, like 3rd strand dna?

The name of the article that motivated me here - World's First Human Born With Third Strand. For anyone interested in the article so named, I found it here -

http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress4/worlds-first-human-in-the-world-to-be-born-with-a-third-strand-of-dna/

- apparently from a source publisher named Daily Mail and it's reporter dubiously named "daily mail reporter" in or around April, 2011.

What is in a name? The motivation is looking beyond the familiar catchiness of the phrase, beyond the value to self or literary value or mystery, curiosity, art or the like that wants or needs to establish or assert such value

The sub-name - secondary title , alias, caption or the like - intended to supplement the leading name usually by addition (sometimes or subtraction ) in this instance appears to confirm the leading title "Boy, two, is first person in the world to be born with an extra strand of DNA", ergo my motivation.

What entity has the wherewithal to know or even assert that one, newborn sample, named "human DNA - Alfie " , is different than every other sample in the world? Who or what has the need and requisite wherewithal to assert that every snowflake that has ever fallen is unique from every other snowflake that has ever fallen? Snowflake mathematics notwithstanding, same or similar experts assert that the vastness of the heavens and expanding number of stars / planets therein assures that earth is not unique, out there somewhere are other planets harboring forms of life.

The given need in play here is soon apparent in the first sentence of this article. It quickly corrects the misnomer of the leading name; "A two-year-old boy has become the only person in the world to be diagnosed with an extra strand in his DNA." A subsequent sentence further corrects this growing chain of misnomers; " .... extra strand of material which has never been documented anywhere in the world before" Aparently the entity behind the Daily Mail knows of every diagnosis ever documented ..... that must be some BEAST!


Tales from the olden days of things passing on the other side of the pond tell that upon sample patients appearing at the chamber doors of the resident experts - soothsayers, medince men , wise-women, wind reader, dreamer, bard, doktor, handyman or the like - with unfamiliar ailment, the typical sop was to place them on a bed or rack, ply with leeches while stretching "adjusting" their skeleton. Perhaps early history named these people "patient" due to the need for them to be tolerant while the resident scientist treated them with whatever tricks were pulled from their bag. Eons have passed, those bags are now universally recognized and named "black bag" and patients arriving at the doors today should expect the expert scientists to go rummaging through their genetic constitution so as to at least establish a name for their otherwise puzzling "first ever" unique condition.