Genetic Entropy by John Sanford

Author:John Sanford
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: FMS Publications
Published: 2015-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 12. Poly-constrained information and poly-constrained DNA.

Like puns, palindromes, and other word puzzles, DNA contains poly-functional letters, words, and phrases. Such sequences can only arise by very careful design. Once they are created, they cannot be “mutated” to make them better. An excellent example is the painstakingly crafted poly-functional Latin phrase shown above (see Ohno and Yomo, 1991). This ancient word puzzle (dating back to 79 AD) has a translation something like, “THE SOWER NAMED AREPO HOLDS THE WORKING OF THE WHEELS.” It reads the same, four different ways: left to right, up to down, and starting at the lower right, down to up, right to left. Any single letter change in this system destroys all four messages simultaneously (all four of which happen to be the same in this example). Similarly, a simple sentence palindrome would be: ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA, which reads the same forward or backwards. Any letter change destroys both messages. A simple example of a poly-functional word would be LIVE, which backwards is EVIL. To change LIVE to HIVE might be desirable, but it turns EVIL which has meaning, to EVIH, which is meaningless. So this dual-meaning word, like the other examples above, is poly-constrained, precisely because it is poly-functional.

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