[atleastoptimal]

Whenever you see organic forms, it's interesting to realize the extent to which they are all "programmed" by their genetics into their structure. In their segments, you see the "for" loops of form. In the same manner this art compresses the forms into their essential mechanical geometries, so too does genetic code create essential abstractions that allow the laws of mathematics to guide their structural harmony.

[creatonez]

These analogies do work sometimes, but biologists struggle to fit "computer code" based analogies into what they are studying. As it turns out, biology is rather unlike computers in a lot of ways.

Some interesting videos for laymen:

Michael Levin - Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLiHLDrOTW8

SubAnima - How NOT To Think About Cells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhvic-eqbc (this channel has a lot of other great explainers)

[phyphy]

Makes me wonder if we can create an unsupervised AI model to "infer" features of an organism through only its genetic code.

[lukas099]

Your comment reminded me of something. I forgot the underlying reason, but in anatomy we learned that for mammals it's evolutionarily 'hard' to change numbers of vertebrae, which is why the giraffe has the same as its siblings and they are just obscenely long. On the other hand, birds with longer necks tend to have more vertebrae.

[quicksearch]

this is all I got atm

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...