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The relationship between a gene and a human body can be compared with that between an egg and a chicken. Modern medical science focuses on analyzing a gene in order to find out obscure mechanisms in a human body. However, a question raises. "If we check an egg in detail, can we know the mechanism in a chicken?" That is, this question means the chicken-and-egg question: "which is cause, which is effect." I think that just this point can be applied to the relationship between a gene and a human body." Is it only I who have such a question?
Do you think which of an egg and a chicken comes first? Needless to way, whereas a chicken (hen) can lay an egg, it is born from an egg. Thus, we cannot determine which of an egg and a chicken comes first. This means that even if we check an egg closely, we cannot find out the mechanisms in a chicken. This must be the matter of course.
I think that this indication can be applied to the relationship between a gene and a human body. Although medical researchers focus on analyzing a gene, they will be unable to find out the mechanisms in a human body. This will be because medical researchers never determine which of a gene or a human body comes first. Undoubtedly, medical researchers unconsciously think that a gene is the blueprint of a human body, and comes first before a human body. However, medical researches should notice the fact: when an organ changes the internal circumstance, it often changes the arrangement of the gene. That is, the relationship between a gene and a human body is just the same as that between an egg and a chiken.
The reasons above allow us to indicate that even if medial researchers make a great effort to analyze a gene, they will be unable to find out a solution to disease. As if we cannot find out the mechanisms in a chicken even if we check an egg, medical researchers will also be unable to find out the mechanisms in a human body even if they check a gene. I hope medical researchers to notice that their research targets are not only genes.
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