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Quote: It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and e
by raymond_goo 2y ago
Quote: It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution.
Now, USC researchers want to add a new rule called “selectively advantageous instability (SAI),” which explores how instability can actually benefit a cell and a cellular organism.
The flipside of this “rule” is that SAI can also be a key factor to things like disease and aging, so understanding this process could aid in exploration of those biological processes.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoWhat's new about that? That has long been acknowledged as the reason sexual reproduction outcompetes asexual reproduction, and as the reason immune systems are so different person to person. And it's also obvious from the fact that different regions of the genome mutate at different rates.
- asplake 2y agoWhat’s new I think would be the generalisation and its acceptance as a rule.
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