General Considerations

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In this introduction to a symposium the author discusses briefly the nature of the gene, including its size, reproduction, specificity, and mutation, and the role of the gene in growth and differentiation. Production of proteins may be basically the only type of gene action. It is still undecided whether differentiation is directed by chains of gene-controlled reactions initiated by special local conditions, or by genically induced mutations of plasmagenes.