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Oxytricha has 100 million truly tiny chromosomes, each harboring just a single gene.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
The metaphor of DNA as a blueprint or instruction manual is not correct given the prevalence of transposons; rather it is “part library and part zoo, with the unruly creatures of the menagerie constantly tearing into the pages, creating mutation and mayhem” (p. 177).
Book review – Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life,
... See moreTão inerente quanto é o desejo de decifrar nosso manual de instruções. É isso que está no centro desta história.
Siddhartha Mukherjee • O gene: Uma história íntima (Portuguese Edition)
You may begin to imagine its genome as an instruction manual for an exquisite piece of nanotechnology crafted by some alien civilization.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
A gene pool is carved and whittled through generations of ancestral natural selection to fit [a particular] environment. In theory a knowledgeable zoologist, presented with the complete transcript of a genome [the set of all the genes of an organism], should be able to reconstruct the environmental circumstances that did the carving. In this sense
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform The World
the end of each Tetrahymena minichromosome, Liz discovered something very strange: a short six-letter sequence repeated many times. One strand had repeats of CCCCAA,
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
