Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8401231 | Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The summary take-home lesson is that we have to change from thinking of the genome as a read-only memory (ROM) that dictates the fate of the cell or organism to conceptualizing the genome as a read-write (RW) organelle modified transiently or permanently by the cell at different time scales.
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Authors
James A. Shapiro,