NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Determinism, Crystallography, Recombinant Dna
6 Apr 2013
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1/3 before midterm, 2/3 after short answer, multiple choice 25, 2 essay. Hope that if you undersrtand heredity you can influence it. Can shape organisms to make them what you want. Bomb was a cobination of how to control shape nature. The connections: links between history of the a-bomb and genetics research. Number of physicists who work on a bomb go on to study genetics. A lot are shocked in the role they play in the destruction they contributed: migration of physicists into biology following wwii. In middle of ww11 writes an influential book called what is life . Issue of how traits get passed on, but explains it in terms of information. Information needs to get passed on from generation to generation through coding. Key problem of genetics: huge amount of information that has to be passed on. Can encode massive number of information with small number of characters.
