ABSTRACT

The exquisiteness of Science lies in postulating testable hypotheses. Practically therefore, it is predictive in nature - driven by a clear cause and affect relationship. The cause and effect relationships of events are manifested along most of the day-to-day proceedings that we witness. Scientists can accurately predict the trajectory of a spacecraft even before it is launched! Similarly precise cause and effect relationship allows a mechanical engineer to break open a car into its tiniest of the components, reassemble them and make it work again. This precise nature of cause and effect relationship however mostly fails to get manifested in biological sciences. Not convincing? Let us consider a living organism-anything from bacteria to humans and put the question forward-can we break open the living organism into its tiniest of components and reassemble them into a living organism again? The answer so far remains undisputedly negative. Clearly we do not understand the rules of the games in biological system as precisely as we know them in other fields of Science like Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry.