central dogma

Japanese: central dogma(英語表記)centraldogma
central dogma

...The central concept is to consider living organisms as molecular machines. For a molecular machine to become a living organism, there must be a flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein (called the central dogma of molecular biology). The underlying idea is an optimistic one, in a sense, that no matter how complex a biological phenomenon may be, it can be understood by reducing it to the biomolecules that carry out that phenomenon.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "central dogma" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…中心概念は,生物を分子的な機械とみなすところにある。分子機械が生物となるためには,DNA→RNA→タンパク質という遺伝情報の流れ(分子生物学の中心ドグマcentral dogmaという)が存在せねばならない。どのように複雑な生物現象も,その現象を担う生体分子に還元すれば理解できるはずだという,ある意味では楽観的な思想が背景にある。…

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