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An Outline of Informational GeneticsA Toy Living World for Illustrating the Main Hypothesis

An Outline of Informational Genetics: A Toy Living World for Illustrating the Main Hypothesis [We now introduce a very simple model, referred to as ‘toy living world,’ where n-symbol sequences referred to as ‘genomes’ are subjected to random errors. The ‘genomes’ can be either arbitrary sequences or words of an error-correcting code. They are periodically replicated, after regeneration when an error-correcting code enables it. The model is as simple as to enable easy calculations of the lifetime of a ‘genome’ and the population size of the corresponding ‘species.’ If no genomic error-correcting code is used, no discrete species can exist beyond a certain genome length: a property of the true living world as fundamental as the existence of discrete species is lost, which shows the inadequacy of the uncoded model. It turns out on the contrary that the ‘toy living world’ shares basic features with the actual one in the case where a genomic error-correcting code is used, especially as regards the existence of discrete species. The toy living world just illustrates the main hypothesis. The following chapter will deal with the subsidiary hypothesis that the genomic code takes the form of a ‘nested system.’] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

An Outline of Informational GeneticsA Toy Living World for Illustrating the Main Hypothesis

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2008
ISBN
978-3-031-00501-5
Pages
125 –136
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-01629-5_8
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Abstract

[We now introduce a very simple model, referred to as ‘toy living world,’ where n-symbol sequences referred to as ‘genomes’ are subjected to random errors. The ‘genomes’ can be either arbitrary sequences or words of an error-correcting code. They are periodically replicated, after regeneration when an error-correcting code enables it. The model is as simple as to enable easy calculations of the lifetime of a ‘genome’ and the population size of the corresponding ‘species.’ If no genomic error-correcting code is used, no discrete species can exist beyond a certain genome length: a property of the true living world as fundamental as the existence of discrete species is lost, which shows the inadequacy of the uncoded model. It turns out on the contrary that the ‘toy living world’ shares basic features with the actual one in the case where a genomic error-correcting code is used, especially as regards the existence of discrete species. The toy living world just illustrates the main hypothesis. The following chapter will deal with the subsidiary hypothesis that the genomic code takes the form of a ‘nested system.’]

Published: Jan 1, 2008

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