Many-sheeted DNA: Basic Ideas

Abstract

The problems of how genes code information about the morphology of organism and how this information is expressed belong to the great puzzles of the developmental biology. A closely related mystery is the differentiation of cells.  The notion of the genetic program is far from precise and it is not clear how close the analogy with a computer program is. There are also several problems which challenge the basic dogmas of genetics.

In this first part of the article basic facts about genetics are introduced and the notion of many-sheeted DNA is introduced as a possible solution of the above described problems.