The place of genetics in modern biology
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1959
- Retrieved
- Jan 4, 2012
- ISBN
- oYFBAQAAIA
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Genetics Gives Us New Powers, but Society Must Decide Whether to Use Them
Knowing what we now know about living systems—how they replicate and how they mutate—we are beginning to know how to control their evolutionary futures. To a considerable extent we now do that with the plants we cultivate and the animals we domesticate. This is, in fact, a standard application of genetics today. We…
Organic Chemists Merely Increase the Probability of Results
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids…