@sapinker Doesn't change the fact that evolution is acting at the level of the gene - regulation is genetically encoded, too. 2/2
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@sapinker Maybe because the switches are so tiny.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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As geneticist/journo, I ask what happens in 3D cell?.RT
@sapinker:Why do scijournalists think it's profound that genes are switched on/off?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker it's our job as scientists to educate the public better.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker being fair, if you've never had a biology education beyond high school, it's not something you'd ever consider.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mjberryman hah! That was not what I was expecting. :)
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@sapinker because reading a press release doesn't give much if an understanding.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker yes they probably doThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Odd bc arguments don't actually undermine gene-centric view. Expression controlled by gene-env interactions and genes r heritableThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Tell them about epigenetics and watch their heads explode.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker because of the old Watson version of the central dogma of molecular biology?@WiringTheBrainThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker This is sort of what's been flummoxing me, too. I mean...yes, gene expression is controlled. Of course it is. 1/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Supposedly my high school had excellent STEM education (according to US news....) but I didn't learn these things till college.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Dobbs was pretty heavily invested in the "feminist" twitter-storm 2 years ago v Dawkins -- obvs got a small bug up the assThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I think it comes from not understanding the pathway between DNA and phenotype. Don't think gen public knows how the dots connect.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker maybe because it shifts the paradigm of what we "know?"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Perhaps because the word «switch» implies some kind of intentionality, for them.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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