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The Genetics of Alphabet Soup
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Welcome to my kitchen. Today we're cooking up a metaphorical relationship between the written word and the molecular basis of life - the DNA. So grab your bowls, your spoons and your imagination, as I intend to stir up your understanding of genetics! |
Introduction
A language is the basis for all communication. Provided that the message received is the same as the message sent, we consider the correspondence to be successful. If you understand this sentence, it is a successful sentence.
I am writing this sentence in the English language. If you couldn't read English, you may indeed recognize these symbols as some form of language, but they would otherwise have little meaning. With each new day, we hear the conversation of birds; their chirps are words in a foreign tongue, flowing fluently across the lands with the dawn, only to become a dull thud upon our comprehension.
I, as writer, then must assume that you as reader, can recognize that this is indeed English. You wouldn't know this unless you recognized certain combined features, such as the letters, the words or the grammar.
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Syntax, grammar, spelling and character and word recognition are essential ingredients of the conveyance through language. We have a built-in interpreter that allows us to "fill in the blanks" where these essentials are concerned - provided that there is enough information for us to glean the intent of the message.
When we SHOUT for example, we carry with our words some form of urgency that supercedes the meaning of the words themselves. When a word is misspelled or mispronounced, provided that it cannot be confused with another, we can overlook the error, as we "know what they meant". Such flexibility in spelling and succeptibility to "shouting", as you will see later, seems as typical of the DNA as it is of ourselves.
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Now that we have agreed on a basis for our written communication, we can look a little closer at some of the properties of our language itself - the inner workings of this physical form of language. But alas, these virtual letters we share on our screens is just not as physical as the "letters" of DNA - molecules - with mass and energy and three-dimension space. So we need something a little more real - a physical language in a physical world.
So, grab your cans of Alpha-ghetti or, lacking this, get your boxes of Alpha-Bits and get ready to explore ...
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