Re: The first "Information"


<TomHendricks474@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:drlnb7$2e8d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The first 'information' in RNA - the first coding - IMO
> was for the stability of the RNA molecule - the most stable
> molecule lasted. (And note my def. of stability is whatever
> allows the molecule to exist longer).
>
> Thus I look at the 4 bases A,G,U,C as not 4 individual bases
> but two sets of bases:
>
> the G-C set with 3 hydrogen bonds
> the A-U set with 2 hydrogen bonds.
>
> The 'information' here is that
> G-C will build stable hydrogen bonds that will be hard to denature.
> A-U will build less stable hydrogen bonds that will denature first -
> thus more likely to interact first with other molecules.
>
> (and later: I would say that this led to the 2nd step of information.
> That the more-likely-to-denature, set A-U
> hydrogen bonds set up codons with 2nd place A or U that sets
> up hydrophilic/hydrophobic split in the genetic code.)
>
>
> PIP - if you are reading this - note that IF most agree
> with my environment emphasis as you suggested, then
> why hasn't anyone ever mentioned stability in the environment
> as the first coded 'information'?

Because it is not heritable. Because it is not information.
(At least not more than 1 bit of information.)


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