Crick's notion of genetic information and the 'central dogma' of molecular biology

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-24

  Šustar, Predrag ^a  

^a Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847673686     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axl018     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Boniolo, G. [2003]: 'Biology without Information', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 25, pp. 255-73.
2. Crick, F. H. C. [1958]: 'On Protein Synthesis', Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 12, pp. 138-63.
3. Crick, F. H. C. [1964]: 'The Biochemistry of Genetics', International Union of Biochemistry Symposium Series, 33, pp. 109-28.
4. Crick, F. H. C. [1968]: 'The Origin of the Genetic Code', Journal of Molecular Biology, 38, pp. 367-79.
5. Crick, F. H. C. [1970]: 'Central Dogma of Molecular Biology', Nature, 227, pp. 561-3.
6. Godfrey-Smith, P. [2000a]: 'On the Theoretical Role of "Genetic Coding"', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 26-44.
7. Godfrey-Smith, P. [2000b]: 'Information, Arbitrariness, and Selection: Comments on Maynard Smith', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 202-7.
8. Godfrey-Smith, P. [2000c]: 'Explanatory Symmetries, Preformation, and Developmental Systems Theory', Philosophy of Science, 67 (Proceedings), pp. S322-31.
9. Griffiths, P. [2001]: 'Genetic Information: A Metaphor In Search of a Theory', Philosophy of Science, 68, pp. 394-412.
10. Griffiths, P. E. and Knight, R. D. [1998]: 'What is the Developmentalist Challenge?', Philosophy of Science, 65, pp. 253-8.
11. Jablonka, E. [2002]: 'Information: Its Interpretation, Its Inheritance, and Its Sharing', Philosophy of Science, 69, pp. 578-605.
12. Keyes, M. E. [1999]: 'The Prion Challenge to the "Central Dogma" of Molecular Biology, 1965-1991. Part I: Prelude to Prions; Part II: The Problem with Prions', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 30, pp. 1-19, 181-218.
13. Kitcher, P. [2000]: 'Battling the Undead: How (and How Not) to Resist Genetic Determinism', in P. Kitcher, 2003, In Mendel's Mirror. Philosophical Reflections on Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 283-300.
14. Maynard Smith, J. [2000a]: 'The Concept of Information in Biology', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 177-94.
15. Maynard Smith, J. [2000b]: 'Reply to Commentaries', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 214-8.
16. Sarabhai, A. S., Stretton, A. O. W., Brenner, S. and Bolle, A. [1964]: 'Colinearity of the Gene with the Polypeptide Chain', Nature, 201, pp. 13-7.
17. Sarkar, S. (ed) [1996]: 'Biological Information: A Skeptical Look at Some Central Dogmas of Molecular Biology', The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 187-231.
18. Sarkar, S. [2000]: 'Information in Genetics and Developmental Biology: Comments on Maynard Smith', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 208-13.
19. Sterelny, K. [2000]: 'The "Genetic Program" Program: A Commentary on Maynard Smith on Information in Biology', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 195-201.
20. Thieffry, D. and Sarkar, S. [1998]: 'Forty Years Under the Central Dogma', Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 23, pp. 312-6.
21. Torres, J. M. [1999]: 'On the Falsification of the Central Dogma and the De novo Synthesis of Molecular Species', Philosophia Naturalis, 36, pp. 1-18.
22. Watson, J., Hopkins, N., Roberts, J. W., Steitz, J. A. and Weiner, A. [1987]: The Molecular Biology of the Gene, fourth edition, Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummins.
23. Winnie, J. [2000]: 'Information and Structure in Molecular Biology: Comments on Maynard Smith', Philosophy of Science, 67, pp. 517-26.
24. Yanofsky,C. B. [1964]: 'On the Colinearity of theGene Structure and Protein Structure', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 51, pp. 266-72.