Chance Is The Only Source Of True

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.

Moreover The Incorporation Requires The Same Components Needed For Protein Synthesis, And Is Inhibited By The Same Inhibitors. Thus The System Is Most Unlikely To Be A Complete Artefact And Is Very Probably Closely Related To Genuine Protein Synthesis.

I Also Suspect That Many Workers In This Field [molecular Biology] And Related Fields Have Been Strongly Motivated By The Desire, Rarely Actually Expressed, To Refute Vitalism.

A Theory Should Not Attempt To Explain All The Facts, Because Some Of The Facts Are Wrong

It Seems Likely That Most If Not All The Genetic Information In Any Organism Is Carried By Nucleic Acid - Usually By Dna, Although Certain Small Viruses Use Rna As Their Genetic Material.