Organic codes: Metaphors or realities?
Coding characteristics have been discovered not only in protein synthesis, but also in various other natural processes, thus showing that the genetic code is not an isolated case in the organic world. Other examples are the sequence codes, the adhesion code, the signal transduction codes, the splici...
| Publicado en: | Sign Systems Studies Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 743 - 755 |
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University of Tartu
2002
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