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mechanical energy and genetic information to drive enzymic catalysis

(see Section 3.4) [65].

Catalysis, according to Figure 9.10, is determined by the amino acid

sequences of an enzyme which determines a set of conformational states

influenced by a given environment (harboring requisite conformons) that in

turn determines the kind of chemical reactions to be catalyzed in such a man-

ner as to preserve the genetic information encoded in the amino acid

sequence of the enzyme.

9.4.5 Gene Expression

Gene expression can also be thought to exhibit ITR, as shown in

Figure 9.11, wherein the molecular agents responsible for catalysis are

suggested to be conformons embedded in proteins (see Section 3.4) [65].

Figure 9.11 maintains that the nucleotide sequence of DNA deter-

mines the amino acid sequences of enzymes that in turn determines the

chemical reactions to be catalyzed resulting in chemical concentration

waves that carry the original information encoded in the nucleotide

sequence of DNA.

9.4.6 Practopoiesis

Nikolic’s “practopoiesis” [388] (see Section 10.11) can be viewed as

implicating Peircean semiosis as schematically indicated in Figure 9.12.

9.4.7 ITR in Mathematics, Philosophy, Semiotics, and Religions

Not all ITRs are quantitative, unlike the impressions given by Figure 9.3,

where eight out of the nine boxes illustrate the role of the golden ratio and

f g

DNA/RNA Proteins Chemical Waves

h

Figure 9.11 Gene expression can be viewed as an irreducibly triadic process and hence

as a mathematical category or semiosis. f = transcription and translation; g = enzyme

catalysis; h = genetic information flow or genetic control gene expression as semiosis.

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