document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1.2“We are survival machines,
robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish
molecules known as genes.
This is a truth which still fills me with
astonishment.”
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolution
At minimum, if you don’t know biology well, read these reviews:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/biological-complexity-and-integrative-levels-of-organization-468/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mendelian-genetics-patterns-of-inheritance-and-single-966/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/gene-interaction-and-disease-987/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to-mrna-to-protein-393/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/what-is-a-gene-colinearity-and-transcription-430/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetics-of-dog-breeding-434/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/reading-a-phylogenetic-tree-the-meaning-of-41956/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/ebooks/cntNm-16553748/contents/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/sexual-reproduction-and-the-evolution-of-sex-824/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-mutation-1127/
https://readiab.org/biological-information.html
Read more of this free book if you need/want:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21128/
04-BioReview/04-BioReview.html
* [ ] Add a section on epigenetics as control of development
* [ ] add discussion questions
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https://umsystem.instructure.com/courses/151204/quizzes/401640
++++++++++++ Cahoot-04-2
https://umsystem.instructure.com/courses/151204/quizzes/401641
To see how this little presentation was made, see:
http://sozi.baierouge.fr/