Re: Feral Hogs
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Sure, we have mapped the genome, but we still have almost no idea how genes work. 'Junk' DNA that doesn't seem to do anything is everywhere. Yet DNA directly affects protein synthesis. With terabytes of information - each bit possibly having immense (or zero) significance - a DNA sequence is really just a tangible representation of what uniquely identifies an organism.
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I'm curious how this concept is handled by geneticists -- do they explicitly use the mathematical tools of classical information theory to discuss these concepts and gain new insights? If not, is it simply that there's no working theory (starting from certain postulates) to put the mathematics to work?
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