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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

'not just... but...'

'not just... but...'

The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.

http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm

In a simple organism, many of the genes simply build a protein and dump it into the stew. In a complex organism, one gene may turn on a second one, which speeds up the activity of a third one (but only if a fourth one is active), which then turns off the original gene (but only if a fifth one is inactive), and so on. This defines a kind of recipe that can build a more complex organism out of the same number of genes. The complexity of an organism thus depends not just on its gene count but on the intricacy of the box-and-arrow diagram that captures how each gene impinges on the activity of the other genes. And because adding a gene doesn't just add an ingredient but can multiply the number of ways that the genes can interact with one another, the complexity of organisms depends on the number of possible combinations of active and inactive genes in their genomes.

In this passage I have a question about sentences with underlined 'not just... but...'.

These two seems to be able to be replaced by 'not only... but also...'.
Am I right?

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Stenka25In this passage I have a question about sentences with the underlined 'not just... but...' structure.
Stenka25These two seems to be able to Can they be replaced by 'not only... but also...?'
Yes they can.
Stenka25The complexity of an organism t
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Thanks a lot, fivejedjon.
Thanks a lot as always, teechr.
Thanks a million for your proofreading to my slack writing, teechr.

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