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Perry, on page 45 in your book, you say: “In humans, 46 chromosomes comprise instructions for building the whole body”. So it seems like you say here that every feature of my body is coded by an instruction in DNA. I would have agreed immediately if you had said something like: “Every cell building brick in your body is coded by DNA”. I don’t see how DNA codes for example for the location for the features in my face so that when I see my face in the mirror I recognize my forebears face. You would need a real real massive amount of bits to code for that arrangement and also for the logistics needed to get and keep the cells there. Has anyone tried to calculate the amount of information you would need for that? Where are the full assemblage instructions for my body coming from? How do my left ear cells know they’re in my left ear so they try to arrange themselves in a good mirror image of my right ear?
My statement isn’t 100% correct. As far as I can tell it has been firmly established that body plans are not coded in the genome. See for example this paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610716300542
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0079610716300542?token=7CD468E03D77773BF4949CAC614A1CB4513501074FA723A087AAFF0E191B193EC8485DDC8B71932997580444AC4578C6
Perry, thanx for the link. Reading it will take some time I think.
I would think there’s more in it. I read the article and the origin of the body plan is indeed still unclear. But why should we start with the most difficult question here? Each cell has already a ‘body plan’. This becomes clear at cell division. The two new cells have to rearrange their body plan. How do they accomplish that? So morphology research should start with the cell, I think. If you suppose, rightly, that each cell is behaving intelligent then the answer shouldn’t surprise you.
I believe a lot of this information is stored in the cell membrane. I’ve seen literature that says that. I don’t precisely remember where I’ve seen that.
Which reminds me of the idea that all the information present in a certain 3D volume of space can be projected onto its 2D surface. The smaller something is, the greater the ratio between surface and volume becomes. That’s very advantageous for a small cell if it wants to store its information there, less for a big body like mine. 🙂