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Metabolic complexity has no bearing on genetic determinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Athel Cornish-Bowden
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Affiliation:
Institut Fédératif Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 13402 Marseilles Cedex 20, Franceathel@ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/~athel/homepage.htm
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Abstract

Metabolic systems are complicated and contain very large numbers of interacting reactions and many internal regulatory mechanisms. This does not prevent the genetic composition of an organism from influencing its behavior, however, nor does it preclude the possibility that some aspects of its behavior may be amenable to simple explanations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 889 - 890
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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