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SO ENDS this first weekend on biocrystals. In terms of planetary functioning, these organic-inorganic hybrids made by microscopic creatures have laid down vast geolological sediment beds, locked up enormous quantities of inorganic carbon, and provided the food chain with a giant first step. Whilst it is glib to say from smallness comes greatness, and from simplicity comes complexity, both are true in this case. View in LinkedIn

CANDIDATE FUNCTIONS. "Various functions have been assigned to coccoliths, ranging from protection against grazing, regulation of depth in the water column, or modification of optical properties to favour photosynthesis. However, the frequent correlation of calcification rates with photosynthesis and the often observed continual production and shedding of coccoliths suggests that coccolithophore calcification production may have at least a partial metabolic role." https://lnkd.in/eXTtntg View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESES OF FUNCTION. "Despite the efforts made to discover the function of calcification, none of the various hypotheses are supported by sufficient evidence to have been fully accepted." It is perplexing that such major structures have not yet had a satisfactory function ascribed to them. https://lnkd.in/e2i9eMi View in LinkedIn

NEO-LAMARCKISM. "The neodarwinistic paradigm of chance mutations and selection is refuted nowadays through research results which identify a higher order regulation code in the non-protein coding regions of genome architecture. This higher order regulation code is subject/object to environmental influences which become hereditable, with the effect that a different use of protein coding core components leads to different genetic organization." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT REVIEW OF CALCIFICATION. "The absolute minimum energy cost for the conversion of 1 mol CO2 to carbohydrate is 8.43 mol of absorbed photons (400−700 nm), assuming that the additional ATP needed in addition to that produced in non-cyclic photophosphorylation comes from cyclic photophosphorylation. Considerations of reductive assimilation of nitrate and sulphate, and ATP use in nutrient transport, biosynthesis and maintenance gives a total cost of photosynthetic growth of at least 15.5 mol photons per mol CO2." https://lnkd.in/e2i9eMi View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETICS. "Today, a wide variety of illnesses, behaviors, and other health indicators already have some level of evidence linking them with epigenetic mechanisms, including cancers of almost all types, cognitive dysfunction, and respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, autoimmune, and neurobehavioral illnesses." https://lnkd.in/evZabC3 View in LinkedIn

HOLO- AND HETRO. "Two distinct classes of coccoliths have been identified. Holococcoliths are simple single-crystalline structures, while heterococcoliths are more complex multi-component structures. Current evidence suggests that holococcoliths are formed on the external cell surface while heterococcoliths are produced in intracellular compartments (coccolith vesicle)." https://lnkd.in/eXTtntg View in LinkedIn

ACUTE COMMUNICATION. "The microbiological community is exposed to a broad range of chemical substances in which an incredible variety of chemical messenger substances is embedded, from which they must be able to take up and interpret the correct ones in order to survive. It is very difficult to imagine how bacteria can differentiate between sense and nonsense in their chemical environment, in which they are constantly bombarded from all sides by small molecules." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

PHASE SYMMETRY. "The diploid phase is characterized by heterococcoliths, which show radial symmetry and are formed of a limited number (typically

NEW INFO #6. "If we look at the flexible and dynamic expansion of information processes through epigenetic programming and reprogramming, alternative splicing and RNA-editing, we must confess today that investigations of the genomic contents of organisms with the molecular biology tools of the last 5 decades have yielded more questions than answers." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn