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Praise Of Chromosome "Folly": Confessions Of An Untamed Molecular Structure (Paperback)
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Praise Of Chromosome "Folly": Confessions Of An Untamed Molecular Structure (Paperback)
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When examined carefully at the molecular level, the chromosome
turns out to have created its own private world full of tricks,
back door exits and novel solutions. This "folly" makes it an
untamed innovator. Geneticists have been bewildered for decades.
What kind of creature was actually the chromosome? Was it plastic,
changing by innumerous rearrangements and mutations all the time;
or was it a rigid structure which has preserved its basic
organisation and functions since the dawn of the cell? It is this
conflicting state that seems to be at the base of its "folly".
Perplexed by this behavior, cell biologists have called it a
junkyard and even the ultimate parasite. Moreover, the chromosome
has been regarded as a passive cell organelle prone to random
mutations and subjected to the mercy of selection.The latest
molecular information discloses a radically different picture in
which the chromosome appears as an independent molecular structure
that follows its own path. It does not obey gravity, randomness,
selection or magnetism.By anchoring the chromosome's contradictory
behavior on molecular processes directed by atomic self-assembly,
Lima-de-Faria expands a novel view of the chromosome with
unexpected implications for genetics, evolution and physics.This
timely book contains the latest information on the molecular
organization of the chromosome. The information is original and is
presented in an unorthodox way, while carefully chosen elucidating
and attractive figures serve to add clarity to the subject treated.
Thus, the book will add greatly to the general debate on the
evolution of living organisms, and will be of particular interest
to those in the biotechnological field.
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