Chapter 60

Title: Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues

Quote:
“Maynard Smith’s analogy between the genetic code and
human0designed codes is too apparent to require a justification.”

Expectations:
I expect to learn more about genetic information and why it is
similar to computers and ethical issues.

Book Review:
Generally, genetics has developed many concepts from
informatics and these concepts are illustrated in two different levels.
Basically, genetics has taken the very notion of information in the field
of informatics. To discuss with a high definition, molecular biologists
claim that cells and molecules are machinery similar to computers and
it contains useful devices to build a unique biological beings starting
from the information stored in a DNA. This chapter also talks about
the concept of information and the notion of genetic information. Base
on Maynard Smith, he discussed that the cell and egg are the
computer machinery that keeps them alive and useful. There are also
ethical problems in genetic information.

Things I have learned:

I have learned how to define computers in a high and basic
definition.

Integrity Questions:
1. Who is Antonio Marturano?
2. Why are computers similar from genetics?
3. Explain the genetics in a most basic and high definition.
4. What is the concept of information?
5. What is the notion of genetic information?