Information Theory and the Genetic Code

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

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