linkedin post 2021-01-24 05:43:29

BIDIRECTIONAL INFORMATION. “Information flows bidirectionally between different levels of biological organization. For instance, the macroscopic signals that a cell receives from its environment can influence which genes it expresses — and thus which proteins it contains at any given time — or even the rate of mutation of its DNA, which could lead to changes in the molecular structures of the proteins. This is in contrast to physical systems where, typically, macroscopic perturbations or higher-level structures do not modify the structure of the molecular components.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/35011540

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