Genetic Code as a Harmonic System

Abstract

In a certain way, this paper presents the continuation of the previous one which discussed the harmonic structure of the genetic code (Rakocevic, 2004). Several new harmonic structures presented in this paper, through specific unity and coherence, together with the previously presented (Rakocevic, 2004), show that it makes sense to understand genetic code as a set of several different harmonic structures. Thereby, the harmonicity itself represents a specific unity and coherence of physico-chemical properties of amino acid molecules and the number of atoms and/or nucleons in the molecules themselves (in the form of typical balances). A specific Gauss' arithmetical algorithm has the central position among all these structures and it corresponds to the patterns of the number of atoms within the side chains of amino acid molecules in the following sense: G+V = 11; P+I = 21; S+T+L+A+G = 31; D+E+M+C+P = 41; K+R+Q+N+V = 61; F+Y+W+H+I = 71; (L+M+Q+W) + (A+C+N+H) = 81; (S+D+K+F) + (T+E+R+Y) = 91; (F+L+M+S+P) = (T+A+Y+H+I) = (Q+N+K+D+V) = (E+C+W+R+G) = 51. Bearing in mind all these regularities it make sense to talk about genetic code as a harmonic system. On the other hand, such an order provides new evidence supporting the hypothesis established in the previous paper (Rakocevic, 2004) that genetic code has been complete from the very beginning and as such was the condition for the origin and evolution of life.