BIOLOGY, MOLECULAR AND ORGANISMIC

A beginning of the end of the holism versus reductionism debate?: Molecular biology goes cellular and organismic

A bout 20 years ago the famous biologist and scholar of evolutionary game theory, John Maynard Smith commented on the holism versus reductionism debate between organismic and molecular biologists with the following phrase [1]: “... Holists are, I think, in a weaker position, if only because progress has been so much faster from the bottom up than from the top down. Yet, I do share their convict...

Synopsis of organismic theory.

Organismic Supercategories and Qualitative Dynamics of Sys..

The representation of biological systems by means of organismic supercategories, developed in previous papers, is further discussed. The different approaches to relational biology, developed by Rashevsky, Rosen and by Baianu and Marinescu, are compared with Qualitative Dynamics of Systems which was initiated by Henri Poincaré (1881). On the basis of this comparison some concrete results concern...

Biochemistry and molecular biology*

1. The yeast two-hybrid system ...................................................................................................... 2 1.1. Creating DB-X baits ...................................................................................................... 2 1.2. Testing self-activation by DB-X baits ................................................................................ 3 1.3. ...

Genetics and Molecular Biology