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An engineer's view on genetic information and biological evolution.
Bio Systems - 1 Jan 2000
Battail Gérard
Abstract excerpt
We develop ideas on genome replication introduced in Battail [Europhys. Lett. 40 (1997) 343]. Starting with the hypothesis that the genome replication process uses error-correcting means, and the auxiliary one that nested codes are used to this end, we first review the concepts of redundancy and error-correcting codes. Then we show that these hypotheses imply that: distinct species exist with a hierarchical...
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