An example of simile in popular science writing:
"A very important point concerning the distribution of property-characterising pedants [i.e., the bases] along the fibrelike gene molecules, is that this distribution is subject to spontaneous changes resulting in corresponding macroscopic changes in the entire organism. The most common cause for such changes lies in the ordinary thermal motion, which makes the entire body of the molecule bend and twist like the branches of a tree in a strong wind."
George Gamow (1961) One, Two, Three…Infinity. Facts and speculations of science, Revised Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
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[Note: the suggestion that most mutations in genes are due to thermal motion is not consistent with current understanding.]
