The all pervasive principle of repetitious recurrence governs not only coding sequence construction but also human endeavor in musical composition

Author(s): Ohno, M.

Journal/Book: Immunogenetics. 1986; 24: 71-8.

Abstract: Organisms which have evolved on this earth are governed by multitudes of periodicities; tomorrow is another today, and the next year is going to be much like this year. Accordingly, the principle of repetitious recurrence pervades every aspect of life on this earth. Thus, individual genes in the genome have been duplicated and triplicated often to the point of redundancy, and each coding sequence consists of numerous variously truncated as well as variously base- substituted copies of the original primordial building block base oligomers and their allies. This principle even appears to govern the manifestations of human intellect; musical compositions also rely on this principle of repetitious recurrence. Accordingly, coding base sequences can be transformed into musical scores using one set rule. Conversely, musical scores can be transcribed to coding base sequences of long open reading frames.

Keyword(s): Dna|ge. Music|. Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid|

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