Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing
This is the first uniform description of all key levels of communication in the organismic kingdoms of plants, fungi, animals and bacteria based on the most recent empirical data. Biocommunication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- an
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Günther Witzany
Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing
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Mag. Dr. Günther Witzany Telos - Philosophische Praxis Vogelsangstr. 18c 5111 Bürmoos Austria
ISBN 978-90-481-3318-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3319-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3319-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938037 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: Front cover image copyright Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.: Influenza A virus (RNA virus) Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
I wrote this book for biologists and those who are interested in both biological affairs in general and perspectives which integrate a large number of specialised biological disciplines. The theory of biocommunication presented herein investigates signal transduction processes among cells, tissues, organs and organisms in bacteria, animals (corals and bees), fungi and plants in the light of the current available empirical data. Because life is the central focus of the life sciences, this theory will also focus on typical features of life as opposed to inorganic matter. Because this field of investigation is based on the methodological primacy of a pragmatic action theory, the book may also be of interest to researchers of linguistics, communication sciences and sociology (e.g. plant sociology, animal sociology) who would welcome an overview of these highly specialised biological disciplines. Current molecular biology as well as cell biology investigates its scientific object by using key terms such as genetic code, code without commas, misreading of the genetic code, coding, open reading frame, genetic storage medium DNA, genetic information, genetic alphabet, genetic expression, messenger RNA, cellto-cell communication, immune response, transcription, translation, nucleic acid language, amino acid language, recognition sequences, recognition sites, protein coding sequences, repeat sequences, signalling, signal transduction, signalling codes, signalling pathways, etc. All these terms combine a linguistic and communication theoretical vocabulary with a biological one. In this book I try to introduce an appropriate model to exemplify this vocabulary (which is used in biology all the time without people thinking about it), on the basis of explanation and understanding of a linguistic action, the great variety of communicative actions. Many biologists are not very familiar with current definitions of ‘language’ and ‘communication’ in contrast to linguistics, communication science, pragmatic action theory, sociological theories. If
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