The question of questions: what is a gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffiths & Stotz.

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The question of questions: what is a gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffiths & Stotz.

Theoretical medicine and bioethics - 1 Jan 2006

Moss Lenny

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If the question "What is a gene?'' proves to be worth asking it must be able to elicit an answer which both recognizes and address the reasons why the concept of the gene ever seemed to be something worth getting excited about in the first place as well analyzing and evaluating the latest develops in the molecular biology of DNA. Each of the preceding papers fails to do one of these and suffers the consequences....

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