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VIRAL MUTATION. "There are plentiful opportunities for data corruption in the modern computing environment. Faults in hardware or on storage media itself can lead to new bit patterns, and hence new instructions, in programs. Faulty software can overwrite either code or result in the creation of stray pieces of orphan code." (Page 50). https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS CODE. "I’ve been really into code mutation and getting computers to write their own code, well at least that’s the goal anyway. What really interests me is if you can give a computer a really small amount of code but yet get it to construct something itself." https://lnkd.in/e2GhRte View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION. "He is not trying to model real-world natural selection. He is investigating the feasibility of evolving machine language software by random mutation and artificial selection. https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION. "It is not difficult to imagine the development of an advanced computer virus, more like a real biological virus, that is capable of evolving defenses against the latest virus detection software." https://lnkd.in/da2m8CW View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION AND CODE. "Can Computers Mimic Darwinian Evolution? Darwinism holds that new genes can evolve blindly out of old genes by gene duplication, mutation and recombination under the pressure of natural selection." https://lnkd.in/dH9XaVn View in LinkedIn

ACTIVATION PATHWAYS. "In certain environments there is also activation of floral-promotion pathways such as the photoperiodic, gibberellin (GA), ambient temperature and light-quality pathways. At some stage the point is reached when promotion is greater than repression and the flowering transition occurs.' https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

MUTANT DISCLOSURES. "There are five members of the phytochrome gene family in Arabidopsis and equivalent gene families in other species. Phytochromes are chromoproteins that contain identical tetrapyrrole chromophores. Mutants or transgenic plants in which chromophore biosynthesis is impaired will be incapacitated with regard to all of the functional phytochromes." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

REPRESSION PATHWAYS. "The predominance of the different pathways changes with the developmental state of the plant. Early on in the life cycle of the plant flowering is actively repressed to enable the plant to grow sufficiently large to be able to support the development of flowers, fruits and seeds. As the plant develops this repression is gradually lifted by what have been termed floral-enabling pathways such as the vernalization and autonomous pathways." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

DEFAULT FLOWERING. "Flowering is generally regarded as a default process that will occur at some point in the plant’s life. The time that a plant flowers, however, is affected by many environmental and endogenous factors and consequently there are numerous genetic pathways that are involved in the control of flowering time." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

CONTROL BY INHIBITION. "Other grafting experiments suggested that other substances inhibiting flowering may be involved; the appropriate day-length would then lead to removal of an antiflorigen rather than (or in addition to) synthesis of a floral hormone." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn