Información, genética y entropía
Resumen
Information, genetics and entropy
The consolidation of the informational paradigm in molecular biology research concluded with a system that converts one epistemic object into an operational technological item and a stable epistemic product. However, the acceptance of the informational properties of genetic acids failed to clarify the meaning of the concept information. “Information” as a property of the genetic molecules remained as an informal notion that allows the description of the mechanism of inheritance, but was not specified in a logic-semantic structure. The metaphorical implications associated with the idea of genes as molecules with meaning questioned the linguistics that seemed too foreign to molecular biology. A reformulation of the concept of information in molecular biology was developed upon the theory of Claude Shannon. The node for the structural coupling between biology, physics and information theory was the identification of an analog structure between the coded messages of Shannon’s theory.
Key Words. Theory of information, molecular biology, Maxwell’s demon, genetic information, inheritance, coded messages, genetic information transfer, coding.
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