BIOL 3200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Domain Model, Cytoskeleton, Wishful Thinking
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****know how to refute all the doctrines of molecular biology (central dogma)*** Proved linear thinking of one gene on protein wrong: wishful thinking since it would simplify the practical use. Gene agency = word salad since the biologists were not paying attention to the words coming out of their mouth (ex. Gene definition: not paying attention to their metaphors. First gene is a sentence then a director then a manager with enzymes as the workers etc. Very talked down simplified models: ex. Giving dna agency is similar to giving atoms agency since everything can be traced back to atoms: how you phrase things you say and react to things said forms a conceptual way of thinking ! Crick central dogma : linear directional irreversible pathway, reductionism af. Arguing against wholism, dialectics, creationism (there are no entities doing anything, just a reactive system) Concept of gene re-established w discovery of introns in eukaryotic organisms.
