The all pervasive principle of repetitious recurrence
governs not only coding sequence construction but also
human endeavor in musical composition
Susumu Ohno and Midori Ohno
Immunogenetics ,
24(2), 71-78 (1986).
Abstract
Organisms which have evolved on this earth are governed by multitudes of
periodicities; tomorrow is another today, and the next year is going to be much like
this year. Accordingly, the principle of repetitious recurrence pervades every aspect of
life on this earth. Thus, individual genes in the genome have been duplicated and
triplicated often to the point of redundancy, and each coding sequence consists of
numerous variously truncated as well as variously base-substituted copies of the
original primordial building block base oligomers and their allies. This principle even
appears to govern the manifestations of human intellect; musical compositions also
rely on this principle of repetitious recurrence. Accordingly, coding base sequences
can be transformed into musical scores using one set rule. Conversely, musical
scores can be transcribed to coding base sequences of long open reading frames.
