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- From: connolly@piglet.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: MRNA
- Message-ID: <59013@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:05:27 GMT
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- In article <C16pGA.K3u@iat.holonet.net> ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon) writes:
- >This refers to the bandwidth of the mRNA transmission facilities, estimated
- >at 200 kilobytes/sec.
-
- Wait up -- maybe you should use a more descriptive term, like
- "transcription rate", i.e., what, specifically, do you consider to be
- "bandwidth"? Is it just the passage of mRNA out of the nucleus? What
- about RNA editing?
-
- Put another way: I could write a one-line program that would never
- terminate -- it would represent an infinite amount of "computation",
- yet only consist of one line's worth of program. So the length of DNA
- means nothing in that context (assuming more than just transcription
- or similar processes).
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