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COMPUTER CODE has been on this planet for just 66 Years, and in this time has transformed human culture. It is a product of human evolution, and will undoubtedly play perhaps a decisive role in crafting human evolution in the future. As wet biology and human culture merge, there is room for the extraordinary. View in LinkedIn

START OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES. "In 1949, a few years after Von Neumann’s work, the language Short Code appeared (www.byte.com). It was the first computer language for electronic devices and it required the programmer to change its statements into 0’s and 1’s by hand. Still, it was the first step towards the complex languages of today." https://lnkd.in/dHAgA5r View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER CODERS should all study molecular genetics before coding. Nature has been infinitely inventive, a mischievous and impartial innovator of the use, distribution, hierarchies, and ecological adaption of DNA code. Nature has pushed all the limits of this fundamental engine of evolution, to make it more diverse, more adaptable, the raw material for selective pressures. View in LinkedIn

ONE BILLION SEQUENCES. "There are 21 possible results from each codon. The one “start” codon encodes one amino acid; 60 different codons encode another 19 amino acids; and three codons encode “stop”. The 3 billion base pairs would be grouped into 1 billion codons, and each codon has 21 possible meanings. So that would be 21^(1 billion) sequences of amino acids." https://lnkd.in/dtQfeKi View in LinkedIn

SIX GIGAS OF INFORMATION. "Human DNA genome encodes 4^(3 billion) = 2^(6 billion) choices, or 6 billion bits of information. The epigenome encodes at least 2^22,500 choices, or 22,500 bits. The total information is 6,000,022,500 bits, or approximately 6 Gb (gigabits)." https://lnkd.in/dtQfeKi View in LinkedIn

THE PLANT CLOCK. "In order to locate the time of year accurately, a timekeeping mechanism operates with precision as part of the plant’s photoperiodic sensing mechanism in a way that is insensitive to less predictable variations in the environment such as temperature." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

PLANT VASCULAR SYSTEM. "Xylem transports and stores water and water-soluble nutrients in vascular plants. Phloem is responsible for transporting sugars, proteins, and other organic molecules in plants." https://lnkd.in/dAvJk2A View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE deals with plants ability to detect photoperiods and circadian clocks that are driven by photoperiods. The ability for clocks to respond to seasons and to day time is critical for the coordination of flowering and reproduction for each plant species; without a coordinated response, reproduction would quickly fail, and all plants in a species must be on the same schedule. The cues and molecular mechanisms for these plant clocks are beginning to be successfully unravelled. View in LinkedIn

VASCULARIZED LEAVES. "When leaves taken from an induced plant are grafted on to a receptor plant, promotion of flowering or other responses occurs only when a graft union has developed." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY FROM SIMPLICITY. "The Game of Life, created in the 1970s by mathematician John Conway has garnered a cult following. It consists of an infinite grid of square cells that can either be live or dead. It might not sound like much but such humble beginnings can give rise to a zoo of astoundingly complex patterns and processes, which now include self-replicating organisms." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn