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UNIQUE PROTEINS IN PITCHER PLANTS. "The digestive fluid of Nepenthes rafflesiana is highly viscoelastic and that this physical property is crucial for the retention of insects in its traps. Trapping efficiency is shown to remain strong even when the fluid is highly diluted by water, as long as the elastic relaxation time of the fluid is higher than the typical time scale of insect movements." https://lnkd.in/eufMNnU View in LinkedIn

PROKARYOTIC SOURCES OF INNOVATION. "The main genomic novelties are found in the prokaryotic domain from where they originally evolved into the higher life forms. Probably all basic enzymatic variations originated therein." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL ENGINES OF DIVERSITY. "The natural genome-editing competences of viruses are most complex in bacteria, in which the complete nucleotide-word-order is largely determined, combined, and recombined by viruses." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION SHARING. "Natural genome editing of viruses depends primarily on their biosemiotic competences, i.e., their capability to generate and constitute genetic content as a language-like text according to syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules in coherence with the laws of physics and chemistry. Through these competences the genetic code is used as a kind of innovation-sharing protocol." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

"EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY emerges from a totally different circumstance than previously thought. It must not be understood as an aggregation of chance mutations of the genetic text and its associated selection, but more as permanent and competent processing of genetic sequences for the purpose of acquisition of previously unknown abilities as an advantageous productivity to ward off competing parasites from host organisms via genomic innovation." https://lnkd.in/eJG-UVH View in LinkedIn

"REGULATORY COMPLEXITY. This is the prerequisite for epigenetically-induced evolutionary and developmental processes. If evolutionary processes are intertwined between different species complexity is even more evident." https://lnkd.in/eJG-UVH View in LinkedIn

CONTEXT BEGETS COMPLEXITY. "Genetic content arrangements within the genomic matrix depends on situational contexts in which living organisms are involved in vivo (e.g. context of growth, mating, virulence, stress, etc.) and is therefore able to produce multiple protein meanings, i.e. different semantic contents of the same genetic dataset. Undoubtedly this promotes the development of regulatory complexity." https://lnkd.in/eJG-UVH View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR SYNTAX. "Combinatorial and rearranging processes in evolutionary and developmental processes occur non-randomly. They need to successfully and coherently abide by the rules of molecular syntax." https://lnkd.in/eJG-UVH View in LinkedIn

NON-STOCHASTIC EVOLUTION. "Far from being only stochastic results of randomly derived chance combinations as proposed earlier, genome-editing competences are built on precise combinatorial rules (molecular syntax), highly sensitive to interactional contexts (pragmatic rules) that determine differences in the semantic content, e.g., multiple protein meanings generated according to higher-order regulatory functions." New theory. https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend with the subject of carnivorous plants. Their genetics are interesting because they are quite different from other plants. Their electrophysiology opened the door to other similar studies in plants. The ultrasound aspects of these plants underscore the pure complex adaptation that plants are capable of. Curiosities of nature. View in LinkedIn