The Importance of Understanding Genetics

The idea of genes as blueprints encapsulates so much of what's wrong about our understanding of how genotypes map on to phenotypes right. A blueprint is a drawn plan for a building with let's say a house and superficially that contains information in the same way that the genome contains information. Genes and genomes are sort of very loosely like a 1D set of information that's mapped onto an organisms 4D organism which is persisting through time.