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Axiomatization of genetics. 1. Biological meaning. Export

Journal of theoretical biology, Vol. 118, No. 1. (7 January 1986), pp. 61-71.

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algebraization axiomatization formal-biology formalizability formalization genetics geometrization invariances mathematization synthetic-biology theoretical-biology

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Axiomatization is a trend in science to settle and reduce fundamental assertions, from which all the others are deducible. Classical genetics has been extensively axiomatized and formalized by Woodger (1952), who resorted to 53 axioms and 12 theorems. The molecular settlement of modern genetics provides the basis for a different axiomatic theory. In this paper 3 axioms and 14 theorems are informally expressed. They cover a few elementary laws of "chromosome genetics" in Eukaryotes. The biological problems connected with the further development of this first attempt are discussed.


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