Symmetries and the Genetic Code

Sergey V. Petoukhov (), Elena S. Petukhova and Vladimir V. Verevkin
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Sergey V. Petoukhov: Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of RAS 4, Laboratory of Biomechanical systems
Elena S. Petukhova: Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of RAS 4, Laboratory of Biomechanical systems
Vladimir V. Verevkin: Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of RAS 4, Laboratory of Biomechanical systems

A chapter in Complex Symmetries, 2021, pp 207-218 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This essay is devoted to a few results in investigating symmetries in the genetic coding system. The focus is on symmetry relationships in the alphabets of DNA nitrogenous bases and inherited amino acids. These relationships lead to a system of matrix representations of the alphabets of DNA that reveal new symmetry relations. The described results indicate that the genetic system can be considered as a multilevel tree of interconnected symmetries. The numeric representation of some genetic matrices is associated with the golden ratio, which has long been disclosed in the sciences for the characterisation of biological symmetries and aesthetics of proportions.

Keywords: DNA; genetic code; symmetry; binary oppositions; bisymmetric matrices; tensor product; golden section (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88059-0_16

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