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COMMON ROOT. “But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.” (Carl Sagan). https://lnkd.in/gtSPp6N View in LinkedIn

CORE ELEMENT. “Interdependence is a defining feature of all of Nature.” https://lnkd.in/g-_U4c9 2-18 View in LinkedIn

THE DRIVING FORCE. “Energy is the force that drives Nature. Nothing in our Universe can happen without the existence of energy or the pathways by which that energy flows.” https://lnkd.in/g3AZeny View in LinkedIn

OPERATING CURRENCY. “The operating currency that flows throughout Nature’s inter-connected animate and inanimate forms is energy. This energy drives Nature by traveling through networks of inter-connectivity that are within all patterns in Nature. The transportation and transformation of energy is a highly connected necessity of life.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

COGNATE MUTANTS. “Recombinational barriers imposed by the mismatch repair system are abrogated in cognate mutants. There is an appealing theory that such mutants play a key role in adaptation via recombination, and the mismatch repair genes themselves show a complex history of recombination attributed to loss and recovery (through horizontal transfer).” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn

LEVELS. “E.O.Wilson and Bert Holldubler in: “The Superorganism”: Life is a self-replicating hierarchy of levels. Biology is the study of the levels that compose the hierarchy. No phenomenon at any level can be wholly characterized without incorporating other phenomena that arise at all levels.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

Are we poisoning our children with plastic? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/19/are-we-poisoning-our-children-with-plastic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

CONNECTIVITY. “If there is one unifying principle in all of Nature, it is that everything in Nature is connected in some way to everything else.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

RANDOM GENE SHARING. “The radical construction of horizontal gene transfer envisions high rates of gene transfer even between divergent organisms. If partners for transfer were randomly chosen among different taxa, then no congruent topologies should emerge from different molecular phylogenies.” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn

CONSERVATIVE ASSUMPTION. “Genes transferred between more divergent species would be easily detected as conflicts with this consensus. (If reality is close to this model, dominated by vertical inheritance, then interdomain and interphylum horizontal gene transfer events promise to provide an excellent means of correlating evolutionary events in the different parts of the tree of life. For example, the origin of the cyanobacteria must predate the acquisition of chloroplast by early eukaryotes.).” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn