Botanists are just weird. But then there’s a Sonic Hedgehog gene after all. And who named quarks?
Well, since GAGA is the nucleotide sequence guanine-adenine-guanine-adenine, you had to figure something like this was inevitable.
Great. The times article also mentions a species of fly with a golden butt that was named after Beyonce.
Sonic hedgehog was named after the game/character, but the name is not random and is based on the earlier hedgehog protein.
Quarks were named by Murray Gell-Mann after a passage in Finnegans Wake, by Joyce. So basically nonsense. 
Nothing to do with Star Trek. The pronunciation is a strange issue.
I like these when they actually have a tenuous link the the person conceptually, rather than because the namer likes this person. This example is so-so. I think there would be many better examples of the gender ambiguous to name it after.
You have to like monstraparva meaning (I think) “little monsters”, which is how LG refers to her fans.
edit: about quarks, I was thinking about charm, strange, etc.
Maybe I know even less about genetics than I think I do, but since there’s only 4 bases, and each DNA strand is millions of bases long, wouldn’t almost all organisms have a GAGA sequence somewhere in their genome?
Yes. And it’s especially off since you only need 3 bases to encode a protein (codon).
If I’m reading the chart right, GAG codes for glutamic acid.