The modern theory of evolution lends itself to the statistical shift in allelic frequencies to account for the traits that distinguish species and genera.
In other words, it is entirely gene-focused.
But while genes play an important role, either coding for amino acid sequences or regulating the expression of other genes, this hardly in itself accounts for what cells do with the proteins and how they group together to form specific and holistic biological structures that define the bodily organs of living creatures.
The “form” of a mouse is quite distinct from that of man even though comparative genomics shows they both code for 99% of the same or similar proteins.
Genes do not encode the forms of living organism…they just provide the molecular machinery that cells use in the process of morphogenesis: But what force of nature directs and organises cells so that an acorn becoming an oak tree?
ANSWERERS: You are describing the chemical changes which accompany morphogenesis and make it possible – what you do not address is how or why cells group togetherto form not just tissue but an organ such as the brain, heart, liver etc…
Btw 1% of 25,000 ( the number of both the mouse and human genomes) is 250….are you seriously telling me that a couple of hundred genes is the biological difference between a mouse and a man?
NOVANGELIS: I’m not talking about the chemical reasons as to why cells adhere to one another to form tissue – I want to know why these cells are grouping in such as a way as to form not just the tissue but also a structure like an organ.
you do get it now, don’t you?