• Title of article

    Is DNA a Language?

  • Author/Authors

    Tsonis، نويسنده , , Anastasios A. and Elsner، نويسنده , , James B. and Tsonis، نويسنده , , Panagiotis A.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    25
  • To page
    29
  • Abstract
    DNA sequences usually involve local construction rules that affect different scales. As such their “dictionary” may not follow Zipfʹs 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 in not a language. Computer simulations and a biological approach to this problem further support these results.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • Record number

    1533098