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FLORAL RESPONSES DOWNSTREAM OF THE CLOCK. "Two types of photoreceptors have a role in the latter: (i) phytochromes, which have maximum sensitivity in the red and far-red parts of the spectrum; and (ii) cryptochromes, the blue light photoreceptors." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

"THE ENCRYPTED VIRUS conceals its presence by encrypting the bulk of its viral logic. When an infected program is launched, the virus usurps control of the system and then uses a simple decryption subroutine to decrypt the rest of the encrypted viral logic, thus the virus’ logic is only visible when it is actively running, but never when it is stored on the disk in an infected file." Just like biology. https://lnkd.in/eV_mmFn View in LinkedIn

DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS. "The multiple effects of light on the timing mechanism are important determinants of photoperiodic responses as they serve to set the phase of the photoperiodic-response rhythm. Yet they must be distinguished from separate effects of light mediating the floral response downstream of the clock." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

LIMITED OS CHOICES. "You can only get a limited amount of diversity by using two operating systems, or routers from three vendors. South American potato diversity comes from hundreds of different varieties. Genetic diversity comes from millions of different genomes." https://lnkd.in/dvZvf8T View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE deals with plant photo-reception and the all-important control of flowering, which is critical for the successful reproduction of the species. Light plays an enormously important role in the clocks of most species, and conveniently varies in duration according to the season. However, even the periodicity of the sun is more complicated than that, affected by the atmosphere, clouds, and geography; and creatures have found ways to work around these variables. https://lnkd.in/dE5CVvG View in LinkedIn

OS MONOCULTURE. "If everyone is using the same operating system or the same applications software or the same networking protocol, and a security vulnerability is discovered in that OS or software or protocol, a single exploit can affect everyone. This is the problem of large-scale Internet worms: many have affected millions of computers on the Internet." https://lnkd.in/dvZvf8T View in LinkedIn

GIANT POSSIBILITIES. "As everyone knows, a random nucleotide strand as long as an average gene has an absurdly high number of possible sequences. If an average gene is 1,000 nucleotides, the number of possible sequences it can have is 4^1000, or about 10^600. The chance of finding any gene currently expressed anywhere in biology in that sequence space, in even 10^50 trials, is less than 10^-500." https://lnkd.in/dH9XaVn View in LinkedIn

MONOCULTURES. "The vulnerability of monocultures to disease and insects...Pathogens spread more readily, and epidemics tend to be more severe, when the host plants (or animals) are more genetically uniform and crowded. The pathogens encounter less resistance to spreading than they do in mixed stands. Outbreaks of disease, invasions of insects, and climatic anomalies have caused many wholesale crop and animal failures in the past." https://lnkd.in/dcM4Wxq View in LinkedIn

COLD COMFORT. "Several parties have attempted calculations of the likelihood of viruses evolving from "inanimate code" by random mutation. In general, the time estimated for such an event was several times the lifespan of the universe. Yet most studies shared significant flaws...in the calculations." (Page 50). https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

NATURE IS INDIFFERENT. "All these programs have fitness functions which is explicitely a direction given by an intelligent agent. Nature has no fitness function. Nature, or rather Darwin’s version of nature, doesn’t give a flying flop if anything is alive or not." https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn