Similarities in Order Formation in Matter and Organisms

One of the major questions about living organisms is how the macroscopic organism as a whole maintains its stability. The elementary processes in the genome of an organism are neutral random mutations, and yet the macroscopic organism maintains its low-entropy state very stably. At first glance, this problem of order formation based on chance seems unsolvable. However, there is a precedent for such a phenomenon in nineteenth-century physics: the establishment of the thermostatistical dynamics of matter. Based on the analogy between matter and living organisms, this chapter discusses the possibility of top-down analysis of genome sequences. To this end, we discussed the two factors that can cause mutations in the genome to be passed on to the next generation: errors in the repair system and natural selection.