COMMON ROOT. “But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.” (Carl Sagan). https://lnkd.in/gtSPp6N View in LinkedIn
THE DRIVING FORCE. “Energy is the force that drives Nature. Nothing in our Universe can happen without the existence of energy or the pathways by which that energy flows.” https://lnkd.in/g3AZeny View in LinkedIn
OPERATING CURRENCY. “The operating currency that flows throughout Nature’s inter-connected animate and inanimate forms is energy. This energy drives Nature by traveling through networks of inter-connectivity that are within all patterns in Nature. The transportation and transformation of energy is a highly connected necessity of life.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn
COGNATE MUTANTS. “Recombinational barriers imposed by the mismatch repair system are abrogated in cognate mutants. There is an appealing theory that such mutants play a key role in adaptation via recombination, and the mismatch repair genes themselves show a complex history of recombination attributed to loss and recovery (through horizontal transfer).” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn
LEVELS. “E.O.Wilson and Bert Holldubler in: “The Superorganism”: Life is a self-replicating hierarchy of levels. Biology is the study of the levels that compose the hierarchy. No phenomenon at any level can be wholly characterized without incorporating other phenomena that arise at all levels.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn
Are we poisoning our children with plastic? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/19/are-we-poisoning-our-children-with-plastic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn
CONNECTIVITY. “If there is one unifying principle in all of Nature, it is that everything in Nature is connected in some way to everything else.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn
LEAKY CONSERVED GENES. “Ironically, the barrier for highly conserved ribosomal RNA genes should be among the leakiest, whereas genes with rapidly changing sequences (such as those under diversifying selection) should observe tighter limits.” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn