The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, is a scientific research book about the evolution of genes and its role in the lives of living things. Dawkins introduces many terms, many are related to biology, and I think it is important to know them. We defined them in class.
- Gene: replicator with high- copying fidelity. Any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.
- Altruistic Selfishness: a concept where acts that are seen as purely being for the good of others, are really selfish and done for the survival of the organism that did the act.
- Acquired Characteristics: traits that are gained or changed throughout a living thing's life, but are not passed on to the next generation since they are not embedded in the animal or plant's genes.
- Body: according to Richard Dawkins, gene preservers.
- Proteins: chain of amino acids.
- DNA: nucleic acid that contains the genes of living things.
- Allele: rivals for the same slot on a chromosome.
- Mitosis: a process where a cell divides into two new copies, each with 46 chromosomes.
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