A Critique of Pure (Genetic) Information

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Gene-P. See Gene-P/Gene-D
distinction
Gene-P/Gene-D distinction, xiv, 8–9,
45–50, 201n.15
and cancer, 141–42
and the concept of function, 153
and rhetoric of the gene, 51–53,
72–73, 184
Gene rhetoric, 51–73
and biological order as distributed
over dependent systems, xviii
and cystic fibrosis, 51–52
and dialogical philosophy of
language, 72–73
Gene-P vs. Gene-D, 51–53, 72–73
genes as text/code, 52–53
and Schrödinger’s hereditary codescript,
51, 53–62, 63, 201n.2
slippage of metaphors, 62–63
and translation, 64–71, 201n.2
Genes, genesis of, 1–50. See also
Gene rhetoric
and biogenetic laws, 16, 19
and biology, centrality of, xiii
birth of genetics, 25, 29, 37–38
and cell theory, 18–19
and center vs. periphery, 31
and chromosomal rejuvenescence,
42, 201n.14
and chromosomes as site of
Mendelian factors, 33–34, 36
and cytoplasmic Anlagen, 31–36,
41–42
and deviations from a norm, 40–41
and dominance/recessivity of unitcharacters
(Anlagen), 25, 27–28
and dominant vs. recessive genes, 40
and Drosophila chromosome
research on, 34–35, 37–38
and embryology/developmental
morphology, 15–19, 21–23
and epigenesis, 5–6, 7–8 (see also
Gene-P/Gene-D distinction)
and expressivity, 28, 39, 200n.13
and field theories, 36–37
“gene,” “genotype,” and
“phenotype” terminology
introduced, xvi, 28
and genetic assimilation, 200n.8
and genetic decomposability,
38–40
“gene,” use of term, 44–45
genotype vs. phenotype, 1, 28–30,
36, 38–44 (see also Gene-P/Gene-D
distinction)
germ vs. somatic cells, 20–21,
200n.10
heritable factors vs. life experience,
20–21
and heritable variation along a
continuum, 25–26, 27
and information/code, genes as, xvii,
2–3, 44–50
and instrumental reductionism, 37,
39–40, 42–43, 50
and the Keime und Anlagen, 11–15,
17, 20, 24–25, 28, 199–200n.7
legacy of genes, 1–3
limitations of genetics, 44
and Mendel’s exemplar, 23–25
and Mendel’s rediscovery, xv, 23,
26, 184
mutational theory, 26–27, 200n.12
and nuclear vs. cytoplasmic
interactions, 22–23
nucleus/chromosomes, 19–21,
30–31, 33
and ontogeny, 4, 6
and ontogeny vs. phylogeny, 13–15,
14 (fig.)
and ontology, 3
and penetrance, 28, 39, 200n.13
the phylogenetic turn, 4–6
and the soul, 6–8
and teleology, 4–5, 9–11, 199n.6
and teleomechanism, 12–13, 28
Genetic information, 75–116. See
also Hereditary code-script
and chromatin/chromosome
marking, xix, 76, 77, 111–14
and cycles of contingency, 114–16
and DST, 115–16