title: [The genetic language: grammar, semantics, evolution].
abstract: The genetic language is a collection of rules and regularities of genetic information coding for genetic texts. It is defined by alphabet, grammar, collection of punctuation marks and regulatory sites, semantics. There is a review of these general attributes of genetic language, including also the problems of synonymy and evolution. The main directions of theoretical investigations of genetic language and neighbouring questions are formulated: (1) cryptographic problems, (2) analysis of genetic texts, (3) theoretical-linguistic problems, (4) evolutionary linguistic questions. The problem of genetic language becomes one of the key ones of molecular genetics, molecular biology and gene engineering.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Ratner
mesh_terms: D003062:Codon; D005796:Genes; D005815:Genetic Code; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D016678:Genome; D008037:Linguistics; D012093:Replicon; D012660:Semantics
chemical_list: D003062:Codon
vernacular_title: Geneticheskiĭ iazyk: grammatika, semantika, évoliutsiia.