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"Darwin’s theory of evolution was based on the concept of the single-cell amoeba as the building block. In their early days physics, chemistry, and biology were three different worlds.
"Suddenly, scientific instrumentation increased the macro-micro range of eye-piece-visible exploration. It was only as recently as World War II that the interrelatedness of physics, chemistry, and biology dawned. In 1940 appeared the hyphens-- bio-chemists, bio-physicists, et. al., The instrumentation produced overlapping of these previously separate worlds. Post World War I biology developed knowledge of the genes controlling the design of biological species. Further biological exploration focused on the even more fundamental virus. For example, teams consisting of physicists, chemists, geneticists, biologists-- really across-the-board teams of different specializations-- zero in on virology.
“The virology exploration brought discovery of the protein shell of the virus and, within it, the DNA and RNA tetrahedral design codifications of all biological phenomena. All this time there was thought to be a fundamental cosmic threshold lying between”
