WK, thanks for directing me to this thread. Good discussion here. Answers some of my questions. Although I'm not sure that all of the Shannon principles have been adressed, such as capacity, average mutual information, ascendency, and redundancy. One case for redundancy would be that a codon can specify an amino acid in any of several configurations (e.g., GCU, GCC, GCA, and GCG all specify the same amino acid, alanine). A SNP mutation on the third nucleotide shouldn't matter to the resulting protein. Is this because the protective redundany of genetic information has been adapted to buffer against SNPs to moderate change?
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