linkedin post 2018-11-08 04:30:35

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SHAPE-SHIFTING GENOMES. “Gene nucleotide sequences are ever changing, with the natural introduction of various mutations, which can affect the evolutionary trajectory of the gene. Gene structures can also change and evolve over time; changing a gene’s coding and noncoding structure can lead to the formation of new genes and neofunctionalization.” http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/165/1/412.full View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-11-08 04:32:09

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NOT ONE GENE ONE PROTEIN. “Posttranscriptional gene structure modification commonly occurs through a process called alternative splicing (AS). AS is a regulated process that results in a single gene coding for multiple gene products.” http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/165/1/412.full View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-11-08 04:34:09

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UNIT OF EVOLUTION? "Individuals are merely disposable vehicles for the replicating information contained in the genes. As long as the genes survive (that is, are replicated in offspring before the individual dies), the survival or death of the individual is not very important." http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/evolage.html View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-11-09 03:48:39

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INFORMATION TRANSFER. "It is only by clearly understanding how chemical systems can transfer and process information that we can hope to understand how self-replication and evolution can occur, and by implication, understand how life might have begun." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/schulman-thesis.pdf View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-11-09 03:51:27

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2D CODE. “The membrane code: a carrier of essential biological information that is not specified by DNA and is inherited apart from it. Yet a genetic program is not sufficient for embryogenesis: Biological information outside of DNA is needed to specify the body plan of the embryo and much of its subsequent development. Some of that information is in cell membrane patterns, which contain a two-dimensional code mediated by proteins and carbohydrates.” https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-11-09 03:55:56

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CENTRAL DOGMA BUSTED. “One of the limitations of the Central Dogma (and, for that matter, the abstract description of a digital computer as a Von Neumann Machine), is that the abstract representation suggests a linear process: one sequence of DNA leads to one mRNA leads to one protein. Clearly, in terms of the cell, this is not the case. The cell manages multiple processes concurrently rather than as a single threaded sequence.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn
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