7 Reasons Our Genes Can't Control Us

Genetic sequences are vitally important for life, but why? Our theory of life may have been built on an unproven assumption. We have supposed that the genetic material in cells, the genome, is a list of instructions. This assumption has held since the discovery of DNA in the mid-twentieth century, but now there may be another, largely unexplored way to interpret the role of the genome. There are several reasons we should suppose that the coding regions of DNA sequence (genes) don't carry instructions at all. Instead, they may be just lists of templates for proteins that can be produced by the cell, if the cell chooses to do so.