9 September 2020

It has long been known that living organisms develop and function using encoded information in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In terms of its chemical structure, it is a combination of two strands composed of nucleic acids, connected by hydrogen or sulfur bridges. Specific proteins, such as DNA transcriptases, participate in transcription, the reading of the information contained within. A slightly different high-molecular-weight acid, RNA, is an auxiliary element used in cells to transport information within their interior. It consists not of a double-stranded helix, but of a single strand. It is also based on nucleic acids, with the minor difference that thymine in DNA is replaced by uracil in RNA. Proteins encoded using DNA form the tissues of the entire organism, which are based on a skeleton, chemical structures, and carbon compounds (~12 u). However, approaching all these phenomena from an informatics perspective, in the case of living organisms, we are simply dealing with strictly mathematically programmed functional systems, in which information transfer is a language based not on electrical phenomena in semiconductors, but rather on a chemical language. As for the chemical structure itself, thanks to which such processes take place, it can also be used to store information that has nothing to do with further transcription occurring within the living cell.