Ch 10: Life's Own Code
- Due Oct 19, 2015 by 10:30am
- Points 10
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- Available Oct 12, 2015 at 12am - Nov 18, 2015 at 11:59pm
"A seismic shift [in biology] was ... under way: from thinking about energy to thinking about information" [p. 290].
"Any living organism is determined by a 'long number written in four-digital system.'" [p. 295]
"DNA serves two different functions. First, it preserves information.... Second, ... DNA also sends that information outward for use in the making of the organism." [p. 296] "The manufacture of proteins is a transfer of information: the sending of a message."
How does DNA do error correction?
"Genes, not organisms, are the true units of natural selection" [p. 301] "The gene is the information." [p. 309]
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." [p. 302]
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