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12 Entropy and Information in Biology
12.2 If you store 10 5 bits of information per second in your brain, what is the
minimum rate of entropy production in the environment around you?
12.3 Pick two biological systems which involve information transfer and storage.
Draw and identify each of the elements in the generic information transfer diagram
as applies to your examples.
12.4 Give examples of prior information about the English language, dialects,
and author usages. Show by example that such prior information about a message
reduces the information content of that message.
12.5 Show how protein DNA inhibitors fit the general picture of information
transfer systems.
12.6 Identify as many sources of noise in the replication of DNA that you think
might play a role. Why is the optimal noise reduction in DNA replication not zero
noise?
12.7 What conditions would make the proposition that continued ordering of life
systems ultimately leads to a catastrophe (the ‘singularity postulate’) not true?
12 Entropy and Information in Biology
12.2 If you store 10 5 bits of information per second in your brain, what is the
minimum rate of entropy production in the environment around you?
12.3 Pick two biological systems which involve information transfer and storage.
Draw and identify each of the elements in the generic information transfer diagram
as applies to your examples.
12.4 Give examples of prior information about the English language, dialects,
and author usages. Show by example that such prior information about a message
reduces the information content of that message.
12.5 Show how protein DNA inhibitors fit the general picture of information
transfer systems.
12.6 Identify as many sources of noise in the replication of DNA that you think
might play a role. Why is the optimal noise reduction in DNA replication not zero
noise?
12.7 What conditions would make the proposition that continued ordering of life
systems ultimately leads to a catastrophe (the ‘singularity postulate’) not true?