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In article <106214@netnews.upenn.edu> barkdoll@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Edwin Barkdoll) writes:
>	Perhaps Chris is making a distinction (or asking for a
>distinction) between computational speed (throughput, total "bytes" of
>information...) and diversity.  Consider a cell which produces tons of
>carbonic anhydrase, which if not the fastest enzyme known certainly
>in the top 10, versus a cell which produces a highly diverse set of
>enzymes which are very slow.

Right - Or even the fact that reaction rates are temperature-dependent.

>What if many redundant copies are produced such that the total number
>of "bytes" far exceeds that in some other more diverse but pokey cell?
>What's the information being measured?

I had a problem with the word "bandwidth", which has a precise meaning
in the context of signal processing, but seems vague when applied to
DNA.  The only thing that comes to my mind as a clearly quantifiable
"bandwidth" is the rate at which purines and pyrimidines pass out of a
nucleus.  It doesn't seem like a terribly interesting quantity.  It
also ignores environmental factors.
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