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Replicating and cycling stores of information perpetuate life

2017-06-14

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Life is perpetuated through a single-cell bottleneck between generations in many organisms. Here, I highlight that this cell holds information in two distinct forms: in the linear DNA sequence that is replicated during cell divisions, and in the three-dimensional arrangement of molecules that can change during development but that is recreated at the start of each generation. These two interdependent stores of inf...

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Literature Corpus work: ea65a5f7-b9fe-522e-a299-0cac8f2ec56c
DOI: 10.1101/149294

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