Nutrition, aging, and genetic program.

It has been proposed that the fertilized egg contains all the genetic information necessary for the orderly sequence of events occurring during the life of an organism. The coded information of the DNA is transcribed to messenger RNA and translated into proteins. It is obvious that new information must be transmitted at different ages in order to account for the various changes seen in an organism throughout its life. One of the most fundamental questions in biology is the cxtent to which environmental factors such as nutrition alter the rate of this informational transfer. Ideally, these studies should be performed