As someone with a surface-level knowledge of a lot of different stuff I think I'm qualified to point out that surface-level knowledge and actual knowledge are very different things, and the Internet era has given a lot of people WAY too much confidence about confusing the two
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The concept of genes was, of course, known about for a LONG time before it was known that DNA carried genes Just like the substance known as DNA was discovered and isolated from the nuclei of cells long before anyone knew what it was for
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The BBC movie Life Story puts a snappy line about this in the mouth of James Watson about the race to discover "the biological basis of genetics" "As far as we know, genes are a function without a molecule, and DNA is a molecule without a function -- it's a match made in heaven"
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Hell, even the Nazis didn't know about DNA, and they thought themselves pretty well versed in genetics.
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