title: [Comparative hierarchic structure of the genetic language].
abstract: The genetical texts and genetic language are built according to hierarchic principle and contain no less than 6 levels of coding sequences, separated by marks of punctuation, separation and indication: codons, cistrons, scriptons, replicons, linkage groups, genomes. Each level has all the attributes of the language. This hierarchic system expresses some general properties and regularities. The rules of genetic language being determined, the variability of genetical texts is generated by block-modular combinatorics on each level. Between levels there are some intermediate sublevels and module types capable of being combined. The genetic language is compared with two different independent linguistic systems: human natural languages and artificial programming languages. Genetic language is a natural one by its origin, but it is a typical technical language of the functioning genetic regulatory system--by its predestination. All three linguistic systems under comparison have evident similarity of the organization principles and hierarchical structures. This argues for similarity of their principles of appearance and evolution.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Ratner
mesh_terms: D005815:Genetic Code; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D011381:Programming Languages
vernacular_title: Sravnitel'naia ierarkhicheskaia struktura geneticheskogo iazyka.