DNA + Music
While something in gene workers yearns for dramatic display of their subject, they still miss the point. The music in DNA is not from the readout of a gene sequence.
The music in live DNA in higher organisms is the coupling energy between DNA and its partners in a dance. Among the dance partners are distant DNA, RNA, certain proteins, certain starch polymers, and certain fatty complex polymers. It is a vast and changing series of tangos at ultra-low frequencies in the range of the biologic pulse. It inductively, and not electrostatically, crosses from cell to cell and organizes tissue resonance. These phenomena are assayed by impedance analysis showing pseudoinductance coupling, and liquid crystal studies showing coupled symmetry shifts. [Merrill Garnett, 2000]
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