DNA Information: Laws of Perception

Georgi Muskhelishvili (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 92 Seiten

2015 | 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-17424-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores the double coding property of DNA, which is manifested in the digital and analog information types as two interdependent codes. This double coding principle can be applied to all living systems, from the level of the individual cell to entire social systems, seen as systems of communication. Further topics discussed include the ubiquitous problem of logical typing, which reflects our inherent incapacity to simultaneously perceive discontinuity and continuity, the problem of time, and the peculiarities of autopoietic living systems. It is shown that the scientific "truths" that appear to be coherent constructions connecting the scientifically verified observations by the rules of logic are in fact always relative and never absolute.

The author is Honorary Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Jacobs University Bremen. He is a holder of academic degrees in biology, biochemistry and genetics. Over the past thirty years he was investigating the mechanisms of genetic regulation in different model organisms from the three kingdoms of life - Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria. By integrating the approaches of biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, bioinformatics and systems theory he developed a holistic methodology for comprehensive exploration of genetic communications in living systems.

Introduction: Some facts about our Universe.- Problems of logical typing: The "one" and the "unity".- Logical typing and the notion of time in biology.- Organisation of the genetic system: Proteins as vehicles of distinction.- Harnessing energy and information: Time-irreversibility of thermodynamics.- Social communications and logical typing in the social system.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 92 p. 24 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
Schlagworte	Autopoietic living system • DNA configuration dynamics • Double-coding principle • Genetic Engineering • Genetic Information • Logical typing • Self-referentiality • Syntactic and semantic properties of DNA • Transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs)
ISBN-10	3-319-17424-X / 331917424X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-17424-2 / 9783319174242
Zustand	Neuware