To build an intuition about how genes code for an organism, one may visualize that DNA is an operating system within each cell, which can only divide, differentiate, regulate or die. Individual genes can be thought of as rules for a cellular automaton on an emergent 3D lattice.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I think if it as flash memory, i.e. mutable state, whereas the DNA is ROM. Differentiation of cells within an organism is epigenetic, I think. Epigenetic modification is very important within organisms, but not much for inheritance between generations of organisms.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes, I expect that you can smuggle a couple handful of meaningful bits into egg and sperm, but most intergenerational genetic modulation should happen in utero?
8:30 PM - 2 Apr 2018
from Austin, TX
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