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In contrast, Gene-D referred to a developmental resource (providing the "D"); it was defined by its molecular sequence.
Consequently, Moss defines "Gene-D" (the counterpart of the previously mentioned phenotypically defined Gene-P) as a "developmental resource (hence the D), which in itself is indeterminate with respect to phenotype.
Because development is systematic, developmental causes are typically context-sensitive and contingent on what is "going on" in the system more generally, not just on the intrinsic properties of some particular developmental resource.
DST applies the notion of inheritance to any developmental resource that is reliably present in successive generations, and which is part of the explanation of the similarity between generations (Griffiths & Gray 2001).
On the other hand, there are those who take the heterocatalytic variability of the gene as an argument to treat the genetic material as a whole, hence genes as well, no longer as fundamental in its own right, but rather as a developmental resource that needs to be contextualized.
According to DST, genes are simply one type of developmental resource for the building of organismic bodies, and to view them as coding for organismic traits or, in toto, as serving as "master molecules" for the construction of whole organisms, is to inflate their actual role in ways that are misleading.
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"Decades of careful park management have given us the opportunity to treat playgrounds like the important developmental resources they are".
What is more, under the right circumstances genetic engineering may become a useful tool for the distribution of developmental resources.
Human development is a matter of complex interactions between nutritional regimes, genes, educational regimes and other diverse developmental resources.
Thorough characterization of this multivariate space is difficult and costly, and finite developmental resources should be allocated using a modern science and risk-based approach.
While bureaucrats successfully built coalitions to motivate businesses to upgrade in some cities, in others, vested interests within the government deprived businesses of developmental resources and left them in a desperate race to the bottom.
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