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THE DRIVE TO REPRODUCE. "Nature has designed life, from the smallest microbe to the largest whale, to have one basic purpose. That purpose is to reproduce. Whatever else an organism does, reproduction is its basic goal. To make a copy of itself, the organism must create another organism that contains the same genes. This can be done asexually or sexually." https://lnkd.in/dGBEY2Z View in LinkedIn

DYSFUNCTION AND DISEASE. "Because lncRNAs are involved in various and important physiological processes, their dysfunction should have important consequences for cell homeostasis." (lncRNA = long non-coding RNA). https://lnkd.in/d2sxUZQ View in LinkedIn

ONLY GENES MATTER. "A common misconception about evolution is that it's optimizing for the maximum survival of organisms. This is not true. Evolution is optimizing for the replication of genes. Organisms are disposable vessels to transport genes from place to place and create congenial circumstances for their replication. Once you've produced your offspring, you're of no further evolutionary use." https://lnkd.in/dfnYR7G View in LinkedIn

Ref for uncted quote: Non-Coding RNAs: A Dynamic and Complex Network of Gene Regulation" "Munshi A, Mohan V and Ahuja YR View in LinkedIn

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

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