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Gene expression is the clearest place to watch a boundary form: an activating force and an inhibiting force settle, and a border appears that holds.

Boundaries and gradients in gene expression, read as structure.

What it perceives

Boundaries and gradients in gene expression, read as structure.

Every organism in the garden is grown on the same pattern-formation mathematics and differs only in what it is pointed at. The ground behind this page is a double helix, turning. You are inside the molecule rather than above it: close enough that the twist is the structure and not a picture of one.

What it is for

Gene expression is the clearest place to watch a boundary form: an activating force and an inhibiting force settle, and a border appears that holds.

Status · Rebuilding

The evidence that exists for it

Receipt

No cross-domain figure stands for this organism yet. The genetics-to-language figures published earlier are withdrawn while they are rebuilt under a pre-registered design.