A series of nine talks In which scientists of various disciplines talk about concepts crucial to their field of study
4: Genes and Genetic Coding by DR. SYDNEY BRENNER Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Cambridge
Biologists ask two questions about living organisms - how does it work, and how does it evolve?
What passes from one generation to the next in a living organism is not the organism itself, but a description of it encoded at the molecular level in genes. Every now and then this description becomes altered. Evolution depends on such chance events.
Second broadcast
The Quantum in Chemistry, by Professor John Murrell : November 5