dc.contributor.advisor | Rajnak, Stanley L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Garland, Harry Thomas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-07T18:14:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-07T18:14:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1968-04 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10920/16020 | |
dc.description | 25 p. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Every organism is built from a complex set of
instructions coded as a sequence of the four different
nuoleotides of the DNA molecule. These genetic instructions
have evolved for a period of three billion years until
today over ten million times more genetic information
is required to biosynthesize a human than was required
for our first living ancestor. This information is
coded in a microscopic skein of DNA five billion
nucleotides in length. We will introduce a few highlights
of information theory, and indicate how they are applicable
to the processing of this genetic information. | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Kalamazoo College | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Kalamazoo College Mathematics Senior Individualized Projects Collection | |
dc.rights | U.S. copyright laws protect this material. Commercial use or distribution of this material is not permitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder. | |
dc.title | Information Theory and the Genetic Code | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |