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Those are three words, and not one!

The section on “The Gene” immediately makes wonder what exactly is wrong with analogy of the genes as they are described with words, as it is evident that something is wrong. The answer arises after a quick thought: genes have meanings (if they don't, then so worse), words don't. Meanings of genes exist, meanings of words don't. That is, words act on the soul by themselves, there is no thing that is referenced by the word, is described via other laws than the word is, and acts on the soul. At least, there is no evidence that such thing exists; by all evidence that is visible to an average reader, words act on the soul by themselves, not via anything else. While it looks that what acts on the cell are not genes, but amino-acids after translation, which are described by laws other than those laws that describe genes themselves. In one word, I suggest that maybe itisbetter toformulate thissection differently, not viaanalogies; at the very least, such formulation would evade objections like “'electrophysiology' are three words, not one!” — 91.122.8.150 (talk) 13:22, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if we look at what the genes translate to, then that thing might seem similar to words, but the action of words on the soul is not determined, as it looks, through composition of the actions of letters; words consist also of some other elements that compose their laws of direct action. In any case, I find it is very weird to explain what is unknown through what is unknown, it only raises questions and does not let understand anything. I suggest to give an idea in brief words what the action of genes is, not what it may seem to be similar to. What do they act upon? What are results of their actions? As this section lets notice, sometimes those results are null, sometimes those are a construction of some protein molecules, perhaps sometimes they are something else; the type of constructed molecule may depend on many factors in the sequence of the genes, as well as the further action of the molecules on the cell may depend on many factors. I think the section needs to explain it in plain words, with no dubious analogies that only complicate the matter, and substituting all “perhaps” and “many” for more precise data. - 91.122.8.150 (talk) 13:54, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Good solid article. There are however no in-line citations in the entire "Areas of genetics" section, and the length and content of some of the sections could be improved. John Carter 20:06, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The evolutionary tree of eukaryotes in this article is not representative of the current phylogeny of eukaryotes (see e.g. Baldauf Science. 2003 Jun 13;300(5626):1703-6. and papers therein). It tends to indicate that eukaryotes are essentially plant fungi and animals, which is of course wrong. Owing to the importance of understanding the landscape of organisms diversity for a large public, it is important to replace this biased tree by a more up-to-date one encompassing the other main groups of eukaryotes. It is all the most important that this tree is the only one popping up when querying "phylogeny of eukaryotes" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.202.87 (talk) 09:15, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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