A digital DNA system favours the superiority of unidirectional inheritance over 'Lamarckian' inheritance.

In biology, changes to a DNA sequence can impact protein sequence but changes to protein sequences (phenotype) do not flow back into DNA (genotype). A system with bidirectional information flow (i.e., both translation and 'reverse translation') remains a theoretical possibility for an inde...

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Published in:PLoS Computational Biology
Main Authors: Aswathi Shiju, Samantha D M Arras, Allen G Rodrigo, Anthony M Poole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-10-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012677