The question of questions: What is a gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffths & Stotz

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 523-534

  Moss, Lenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Cybernetic genes; Epigenesis; Final cause; Formal cause; Gene P; Information; Instrumental genes; Kirshner and Gerhart; Marfan Syndrome; Nominal genes; Preformationism; Telo; West Eberhard

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CYBERNETICS; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL GENETICS; METAPHYSICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 33845313946     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-006-9021-x     Document Type: Article

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