I recently learned that genetic algebras are a thing, which means there is a link between abstract algebra and genetics.
Question: What should I (wearing my mathematician's hat) know about them?
Essentially, I want to go from "I know nothing about them" to "I have a superficial understanding, but know where to look if I want to know more" (or maybe "I know what to say if someone asks me about them at a conference" #overlyhonestmethods). What's the motivation? What's a toy example?
There's definitions on the Wikipedia page, but "set with [operations, homomorphisms, etc.] satisfying [list of axioms]" doesn't give much insight.