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The "Genetic Program": Behind the Genesis of an Influential Metaphor.

Genetics - 1 Jul 2015

Peluffo Alexandre E

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The metaphor of the "genetic program," indicating the genome as a set of instructions required to build a phenotype, has been very influential in biology despite various criticisms over the years. This metaphor, first published in 1961, is thought to have been invented independently in two different articles, one by Ernst Mayr and the other by François Jacob and Jacques Monod. Here, after a detailed analysis of...

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PMID: 26170444
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.178418
PMCID: PMC4512536

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