Conceptual change and scientific progress in genetics

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Akbay, Gökhan
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In this thesis, the historical origins and the contemporary status of the gene centric perspective is evaluated. Gene centrism is a viewpoint which is characterized by the emphasis on genes in the explanation of phenotypes. Gene centric perspective has been defended on the grounds that only genes bear information that specifies organisms. The information concept, as it is used in biology, is problematic. Gene centrism cannot be grounded on a problematic concept of information. The real power of gene centrism depends on the success of genetic analysis as a method for investigating biological phenomena, rather than a fundamental theory based on the concept of information. Complex phenoptypes and their genetic bases, for which genetic analysis reaches its limit, provide clues for how the limits of gene centrism would be transgressed. 
Genetics., Biotechnology., Genetics, Genetics
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12620550/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26134
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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G. Akbay, “Conceptual change and scientific progress in genetics,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2016.
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