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What Monod meant by saying: “What holds true for E. coli, holds true for elephants” was on the one hand correct. The elegant and straightforward notion of the genetic information being stored in DNA, then passed on to RNA in a controlled fashion (transcription), and further to proteins (translation), was soon validated in general as a process also occurring in higher organisms.
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Hausmann, R. (2002). Beyond Coli. In: To Grasp the Essence of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3540-7_21
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