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Is DNA a Language?

✍ Scribed by Anastasios A. Tsonis; James B. Elsner; Panagiotis A. Tsonis

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 258 KB
Volume: 184
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0239

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✦ Synopsis

DNA sequences usually involve local construction rules that affect different scales. As such their "dictionary" may not follow Zipf's law (a power law) which is followed in every natural language. Indeed, analysis of many DNA sequences suggests that no linguistics connections to DNA exist and that even though it has structure DNA is not a language. Computer simulations and a biological approach to this problem further support these results.

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