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The First Sequenced Chromosome |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Stephen G. Olivier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,676 Words, 16,405 Characters |
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the relentless accumulation of facts about the living world. Organisms were collected and named, and biologists attempted to arrange the rich diversity of nature into some logical order. It was then that they realized that their newfound depth of knowledge about living things revealed the depths of their ignorance. This realization provoked the development of evolutionary theory, finally articulated with startling clarity and insight by Charles Darwin.
Biologists today are in a similar position. Though not roaming the world with nets and specimen jars collecting organisms, they are busily engaged in laboratories collecting genes--the molecular instructions for the operation of life, contained in the DNA coiled within the chromosomes in ever...
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...ired in order to tackle larger genomes, more efficient methods of functional analysis will be required in order to tell us what these genes do. However, there are more biologists around today to tackle the task than there were in Darwin's day. There can be little doubt that the truths that we reveal will be as profound and significant for mankind as those discovered in the nineteenth century.
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