Misquoting Science in the Texas Textbook Battles
James A. Shapiro Author, ‘Evolution: A View from the 21st Century’; Professor of Microbiology, University of Chicago
Posted: 12/05/2013 3:57 pm
Excerpt: “Uncovering the molecular mechanisms by which living organisms modify their genomes is a major accomplishment of late 20th Century molecular biology.” Collectively, I call these processes Natural Genetic Engineering.
Symbiogenetic cell fusions, horizontal DNA transfer, mutagenic DNA repair, reverse transcription of RNA into DNA, mobile genetic elements, interspecific hybridization and whole genome doubling are only some of the topics discussed in my book.”
My comment: Dobzhansky (1964) noted differences in amino acids and attributed them them to mutations in “Biology, molecular and organismic.” In 1973, “Nothing in Biology Makes Any Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” he noted differences in amino acid substitutions in chimps, humans, and gorillas.
Researchers have since reported on amino acid substitutions linked to morphogenesis and the physiology of reproduction in species from microbes to man. However, no one seems to have recognized that the amino acid substitutions are nutrient-dependent, and that the metabolism of nutrients to species-specific pheromones controls reproduction in all species.
This cause and effect relationship requires de novo creation of receptors that allow nutrients to enter cells, and de novo creation of chemical blends that control the physiology of reproduction (i.e., epigenetically-effected de novo creation x 2 under the biophysical constraints of adaptations).
Do you think that Natural Genetic Variation is nutrient-dependent and pheromone-controlled? If so, the conserved molecular mechanisms that enable this have been detailed in a series of my published works.
Do not tell this to the Creationists, however, they may quote me.
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.