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MicroRNAs light up life

Summary: Every aspect of cell type differentiation or mutation-driven pathology occurs downstream from the de novo creation of energy-dependent microRNAs. That fact should be considered in all aspects of top-down causation, which must link the sun’s energy to behavior via the physiology of reproduction and chromosomal inheritance. On a relational theory of biological systems: a MicroRNAs light up life

The death of human ethology via ecology

Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: a model Open access publication on June 14, 2013 Mutation-driven evolution also published on June 14, 2013 Variable habitat conditions drive species covariation in the human microbiota https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005435 Open access publication on April 27, 2017 Conclusion: …we found that genetically related species respond to fluctuating habitat conditions in the same way, implying The death of human ethology via ecology

Trump’s appeal to common sense

Darwin Applied to Trump: Can Evolutionary Theory Help Us Understand the Appeal of Donald Trump? The 2016 election tightened the grip that conservatives have on US politics and this could pose a severe threat to the funding of scholarship in the social sciences and humanities in the country. Darwin’s energy-dependent “conditions of life” linked what Trump’s appeal to common sense

Energy-dependent alternative splicings 1996 – 2016 (2)

See also: Energy-dependent alternative splicings 1996 – 2016 Re: Rs3827760 is Val370Ala and EDARV370A No matter what it is called, Val370Ala may be the best example of how nutrient energy-dependent biophysically constrained pheromone-controlled viral latency protects all organisms from virus-driven energy theft and all pathology. For example, see: Genome recoding by tRNA modifications The succession Energy-dependent alternative splicings 1996 – 2016 (2)

Bio-functional information

Peter Berean‘s attack on my model of energy as information led him to invent or re-introduce the term “Bio-Functional Information.” The comment from Greg Thurston (below) can be placed into the context of Schrodinger’s claims from “What is Life?” For instance, Schrodinger challenged de Vries definition of the term mutation with this entry: “Indeed, in Bio-functional information

Tasting light links energy from creation to adaptation

The C. elegans Taste Receptor Homolog LITE-1 Is a Photoreceptor “In Brief: A taste receptor homolog absorbs UV light and mediates avoidance behavior in C. elegans in response to light exposure.” Excerpt: Light sensation is critical for all phyla of life, ranging from bacteria to humans (Wang and Montell, 2007; Yau and Hardie, 2009). Organisms have Tasting light links energy from creation to adaptation

Energy-dependent purifying selection / autophagy (4)

Energy-dependent purifying selection / autophagy (3) My question: What is an abiotic environment? See: “abiotic factors found in aquatic systems may be things like water depth, pH, sunlight, turbidity (amount of water cloudiness), salinity (salt concentration), available nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous, etc.), and dissolved oxygen (amount of oxygen dissolved in the water). Abiotic variables found in Energy-dependent purifying selection / autophagy (4)