Week 4/Genomics 2016/Yoon Changhan

Plan

How molecules and cells propagate in the universe? Evolution.

Close species Comparative Genomics (CSCG) for diverse genome evolution.

Phylogenetic tree.

Evolution

 

Homework [1]

 

Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

 

 

 

Evidence for Darwinism

 

Darwinism is a well-known theory of evolution. Darwin’s argument is a very strong inductive argument. Observation, comparison and analysis by Charles Darwin give rise to emergence of concept of speciation, which is accepted by us. Since the time of “On the Origin of Species”, however, there have been a lot of controversies between science and religion, even among scientists, with the fact that acquired traits are not inherited.

What is the main contribution to cause evolution?

What is the mechanism of evolution?

What is evolution in molecular level?

These are my main questions and contributions. Darwin didn’t know the answers.

 To do answer, we must use biochemistry to deal with genome. The mutation on coding or non-coding genome is the only contribution to change genome in a certain species. Changes in genome cause changes of outcome.

 

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