The Central Dogma
Haha, that refers to the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. I hope I get this correct:
"The flow of genetic information is from DNA to protien"
Which makes you think: Our development from zygote to embyro to a full born baby is because of the DNA molecule. All that was ever needed: all the controlling mechanisms, the instructions is based on this long strand.
Quite a miracle isn't it.
But then one can always look at it from another angle, albiet a nihilistic point of view and say that there's all there is to it, we're just an expression of information packed in a molecule. Now there's some kind of poetic mystery to it. Something compelling about believing that we're all just that: Stardust.
So the question still remains: Is being alive an expression of the DNA molecule or something else?
"The flow of genetic information is from DNA to protien"
Which makes you think: Our development from zygote to embyro to a full born baby is because of the DNA molecule. All that was ever needed: all the controlling mechanisms, the instructions is based on this long strand.
Quite a miracle isn't it.
But then one can always look at it from another angle, albiet a nihilistic point of view and say that there's all there is to it, we're just an expression of information packed in a molecule. Now there's some kind of poetic mystery to it. Something compelling about believing that we're all just that: Stardust.
So the question still remains: Is being alive an expression of the DNA molecule or something else?
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