cheetaman Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 And are there any good paper on this topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naitche Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Or is a computer program an identified organic structure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 This is an entertaining read: https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ I wouldn't take it too literally though. One thing it doesn't really touch on is the the amount of feedback that is required to make the system work. For example, the overall body plan of an organism is not coded anywhere in the DNA, but it emerges because of the interaction of gene expression in cells affecting gene expression in other nearby cells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Quote Do genes behave like lines of computer code? Our April puzzlediscussed ways in which genes hold true to this analogy: They have control structures commonplace in computer programs, such as “if-then” logic, “do loops,” timing routines and cascading “subroutine calls.” We also listed some ways that DNA programs differ from ordinary computer programs: Genes program three-dimensional structures from scratch in a water-based medium, using massive parallelism and swarm programming while making use of, and being constrained by, the laws of physics and chemistry. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dna-computer-program-puzzle-solution-20180427/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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