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ENERGY INTERDEPENDENCE. "Life on Earth is organized in the form of a pyramid of interdependence. At the base of this pyramid are species which use photosynthetic processes to synthesize basic organic compounds. Negative entropy and energy flows from the Sun and is converted into highly-structured organic compounds such as carbohydrates. The entropy of the material used in the process of photosynthesis is decreased due to negative-entropy-driven structuring of this matter." http://www.digital-recordings.com/publ/publife.html View in LinkedIn

ARCHIVING ORGANISMS. "In the near future, significant and growing proportions of organismal DNA sequence will be captured digitally, and it will become commonplace to reconstruct genomes by chemical synthesis." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

LIFE ENGINEERING. "Several technologies are combining to transform this research tool into a practical means of shaping the living world." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES. "Information stored electronically can be used to direct artificial synthesis of the corresponding DNA. Complex DNA syntheses are rapidly becoming faster, more accurate, and more efficient, such that whole chromosomes can be synthesized and manipulated." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

DNA CONVERSION TO BINARY CODE. "DNA sequences are now recorded as binary code, which is replicated via file sharing, and used as a template to synthesize new DNA molecules." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

RECONSTRUCTING DNA. "Technological advances in molecular biology have now developed to the point where it is possible to store large amounts of DNA sequence in databases and resynthesize this DNA at distant locations or later dates." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

"THE FIRST DIMENSION of heredity and evolution is the genetic dimension. It is the fundamental system of information transfer in the biological world and is central to the evolution of life on earth." https://lnkd.in/dhH9wkB View in LinkedIn

A GREATER WHOLE. "These are not just changes in the characteristics of an existing evolutionary entity, but the result of changes to the reproductive relationships between evolutionary entities such that “entities that were capable of independent replication before the transition can replicate only as part of a larger whole after the transition” (Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1995)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION ITSELF. "Evolution has repeatedly reinvented itself—creating new evolutionary units at successive scales of biological organisation, e.g. from self-replicating molecules, to chromosomes, to simple cells, to multi-organelle eukaryote cells, to multicellular organisms, to eusocial groups." https://lnkd.in/dTqS4ZN View in LinkedIn

PARENTAL GENETIC CLUES. "The evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity relies on the presence of cues that enable organisms to adjust their phenotype to match local conditions. Although mostly studied with respect to nonsocial cues, it is also possible that parents transmit information about the environment to their offspring." https://lnkd.in/djhmkSP View in LinkedIn