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central dogma

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central dogma [′sen·trəl ′dȯg·mə]
(genetics)
The concept, subject to several exceptions, that genetic information is coded in self-replicating deoxyribonucleic acid and undergoes unidirectional transfer to messenger ribonucleic acids in transcription that act as templates for protein synthesis in translation.


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A master both of detail and of the big picture, he found the "key to history" in religion--the fact that, as he believed, human beings are naturally religious--and ultimately in the central dogma of Catholicism, in the unique balance of spiritual and material brought about by the Hypostatic Union.
For here is a central dogma of revisionism: we learn more from members of other religions than they do from us.
This central dogma of the Catholic faith, Elchinger continued, has at times been better maintained outside than within Roman Catholicism, and if Catholics are now rediscovering it, it is largely because of the ecclesial communities issuing from the sixteenth-century Reformation.
 
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