Re: What does allele mean ?

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From: Clare Constantine
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 03:03

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Re: What does allele mean ?
>>Of course a program that 
>>was anyting like DNA would be considered very poor - heaps of 
In article <3bl41n$1he@rebecca.albany.edu> , tivol@tethys.ph.albany.edu
writes:
>	Shannon showed many years ago that putting the maximum information
>through a channel requires redundancy--that is, you increase the
transfer rate
>until some errors occur and use the redundancy to correct them.  Thus
DNA is
>a very good program indeed.  Furthermore, just because most of the DNA
does

I meant if you handed it in as a computer assignment - obviously DNA is
better 
at its function than anything we can yet (or ever?) construct - I think
there are 
lots of fields trying to copy many of its features e.g. designing things 
using "mutation" and selection to find local optimal solutions;
complexity 
theory (put lots of small things together and hope eventually higher
order 
patterns emerge) - don't get me wrong  I think DNA is fascinating!

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