Re: word of the day: Speichereinheit

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 08:34:06 MST


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Amara Graps wrote:

> Every material item in the world has a "number" in a thick book of
> thousands of numbered categories, printed by the German customs office.
> When something from abroad comes in, it must be identified with this
> special number, before someone can receive it.

What would be the "number" (or word collection) for a piece of DNA
containing the more than 130 DNA repair genes?
(see: http://www.cgal.icnet.uk/DNA_Repair_Genes.html)
What happens if I change the order of those genes in the piece DNA?

Sounds like the system can't work in the long run.

Robert



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