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1953: When Genes Became “Information”

Author(s) -

Matthew Cobb

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.04.012

Subject(s) - biology , metaphor , watson , molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid , gene , code (set theory) , genetics , genetic code , computational biology , epistemology , cognitive science , base pair , linguistics , computer science , programming language , artificial intelligence , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , psychology

In 1953, Watson and Crick not only described the double-helix structure of DNA, but also embraced the idea that genes contained a code that expresses information and thereby changed our view of life. This article traces how these ideas entered biological thinking and highlights the connections between different branches of science at the time, exploring the power of metaphor in science.

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