GENOME and PHENOME
Charles François (2004). GENOME and PHENOME, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1423.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1423 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented |
In living systems, respectively the inherited potentialities, and the properties acquired during development.
M. BUNGE writes: “… while every organism inherits its genome, it evolves its own phenome in a given environment; the phenome depends then upon both the genome and the environment” (1979, p.101).
This defines a very general set of properties. It would be interesting to consider possible corresponding aspects in entreprises, institutions and other sociosystems.