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CENTRAL QUESTION. “Sex has been termed the “queen of problems in evolutionary biology”, and how sex is determined in the animal kingdom has always been a major question with “debates on the origin of the sexes that took place long before the beginning of the scientific era.” https://lnkd.in/dSwmRPP View in LinkedIn

ALL OF EVERYTHING. "The complex genetic phenomena like interference, gene silencing, imprinting, cosuppression, methylation, acetylation, position effect related variegation, transvection and paramutation are hypercyclically interconnected pathways through which ncRNA signalling is affected." (ncRNA = non-coding RNA). View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION in nature appears to be a central goal of all living things, along with the generation of increasing genetic fitness, by either complexification or by outsourcing simplification of the driver genome. Reproduction is front and central. All else can be seen as secondary. View in LinkedIn

VIRAL ORIGIN. "Recent emergence of numerous lncRNAs suggests that they continue to be actively synthesized (i) from ancestral genes that have lost their coding potential, (ii) by genes or other lncRNAs duplication, transposition, and mutation and (iii) de novo from intergenic DNA." (lncRNA = long non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/d2sxUZQ View in LinkedIn

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417 million in talcum powder case. Shame on the Family company. View in LinkedIn

"A MIND-BLOWING DIVERSITY of sex-determining mechanisms exists among eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/dX2rADH View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION in nature is extremely varied. It is a misconception to simply think that animals evolve sexual reproduction while some plants and microbes predominantly or only use vegetative reproduction. Sex is the universal way that organisms achieve new genetic diversity in the next generation. That is its biological function. View in LinkedIn

IN LIGHT OF the deviations from Mendel's laws, and the considerable complexity of inheritable patterns and mechanisms throughout nature, it seems only fit that these be included in the Modern Synthesis, revising our old Darwinian -- and Mendelian -- views about evolution and the central dogmas of Molecular Biology. As yet, this synthesis has not been completed. View in LinkedIn

“GENES ARE NOT OUR DESTINY. They are a factor in the human story but they do not set us on an inevitable course that cannot be changed. The other factors that modify our genes without changing the actual blueprint are emotions, stress, nutrition and other environmental influences.” https://lnkd.in/dwAmBNZ View in LinkedIn

NEW PERSPECTIVE. "With epigenetics, we are somehow touching the tip of the iceberg of a new, and richer, conceptual framework for biology and genetics, in which the genome appears as “a highly sensitive organ”, a “reactive genome”, or a “developing genome”, subject to time and space, biography and milieu. " https://lnkd.in/dHbHGmK View in LinkedIn