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In the previous post of this series I wrote: "Not mentioning atoms when discussing genetics seems to be a common practice."
Microbiologists/geneticists just don't like to talk about atoms, but if they do talk about them they tend to relegate them to "second class citizen" entities, at least compared to higher up stuff like genes, codons, base-pairs, DNA, or RNA.
That academic ostracism occurs even though all of the higher up stuff has a very, very similar atomic kinship with the "second class citizen" entities (Small Brains Considered - 15).
Example:
"It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms."
(John B. S. Haldane), Haldane also had words for biologists (On The Origin of The Containment Entity - 8).
I also wrote in the previous post: "In a future post I will analyze the other component of rRNA (ribosomal proteins) in the context of "where da atoms at?."
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So, in today's appendices ribosomal rRNA, ribosomal proteins, and other ribosomal RNA elements are compared in terms of atom counts per atom type: 'C','H','N', and 'O'.
For a comprehensive layout of, among other things, relevant atom counts, see Quantum Biology - 18 for an introduction of sorts.
The following list links to the appendices (A , B , C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L).
The appendices contain sequentially numbered HTML tables of GenBank entities with links and detailed counts of atoms related to ribosome components (the tables are numbered 1 - 17,953).
Every so often there is a total of the atom count in the tables preceding that Grand Totals table, and an update of the average for each atom type in them.
Notice that the "Chimera Detection - 3" DNA patterns are quite similar to the ribosome rRNA patterns in the grand totals percentages as well as the preceding total percentages.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Let's face it, the genetic atom group at work below gets a lot done, so where are their brains?
But, but Atoms are the "sky"? ... the "highway"? ... Small Brains Considered - 7
I notice that the index to J.B.S. Haldane's book "The Biochemistry of Genetics" does not contain the word "atom" (Link).
ReplyDeleteDarwin never used the word "atom" either.
ReplyDeleteIn an article in Scientific American the word is used as follows: "Biologists can now often connect the dots all the way from classic morphological and physiological traits in plants and animals to specific changes in the atoms of the DNA double helix. They know, for example, that Mendel’s tall and short pea plants differ by A SINGLE G to A SUBSTITUTION IN A GENE for the enzyme gibberellin oxidase. The so-called short variant of the gene changes a single amino acid in the enzyme, which reduces enzyme activity and causes a 95 percent drop in the production of a growth-stimulating hormone in the stems of the pea plants." (Diversity Revealed: From Atoms to Traits, emphasis added). That "G to A substitution" would be brought about by the removal of an Oxygen atom from G (Guanine) resulting in A (Adenine). Because the only difference between G (5 Carbon, 5 Hydrogen, 5 Nitrogen, 1 Oxygen) and A (5 Carbon, 5 Hydrogen, 5 Nitrogen) is that A has no Oxygen atom (see Quantum Biology - 18).
How that atomic removal of an atom, or the atomic addition of one Oxygen atom to Adenine to produce Guanine is not adequately scientifically explained by ostracizing the word "atom" in the word salad explanation "A SINGLE G to A SUBSTITUTION IN A GENE".