Information Theory and the Genetic Code
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Authors
Garland, Harry Thomas
Issue Date
1968-04
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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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.
Description
25 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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