When molecules entered the scientific understanding of life with the discovery of DNA, biology climbed one step up the scale, to chemistry. Then, with recognition of the abstract schemas dictating how genes are expressed, biology climbed even closer to mathematics.
随着DNA被发现，分子论进入生命科学殿堂，生物学才得以升堂入室迈入化学领域。随后，随着人类基因图绘制计划得到认可，生物学才离数学更近了一步。