Current notions of genotype and phenotype vis-à-vis new experimental evidence in molecular biology. A methodological study instigated by the peculiar nature of the HIV-1.

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Current notions of genotype and phenotype vis-à-vis new experimental evidence in molecular biology. A methodological study instigated by the peculiar nature of the HIV-1.

Rivista di biologia - 1 Jan 1993

Torres J M

Abstract excerpt

The strict separation of the biological roles of information and function as if they were two mutually exclusive aspects and the absolute identification of the former with nucleic acids and the latter with coded protein machinery has biased biological thinking to the extent that these notions act...

Topics

DNA, Viral
Genetic Techniques
Genome, Viral
Genotype
HIV-1
HIV-2
Phenotype
RNA, Viral
Virus Replication

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