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The scientific talks during the Biology of DNA meeting gave
nods to the past, present, and future of genetic science. This
illustrated slide, presented during a talk by Eric
Lander, shows the evolution of modern biology. It started
as a field that focused first on observing whole organisms and
their evolution, then turned to the minute molecules of life,
including DNA and proteins, and now focuses largely on mining
the information stored in those molecules. In many ways, biologists
are now returning to their Darwinian roots by using the information
gleaned from DNA to look at the evolutionary relationships among
organisms from mice to humans. |
