
36 ◾ Biological Computation
11. In the following table, match the items in column A (biological terms)
with items in column B (computational terms). Note that not all terms
need necessarily be matched, and more than one term can be matched
to some of the items.
Column A Column B
DNA Hardware
Protein Soware
Enzyme Programming language
Genetic code Compiler
Ribosome Machine language
How successful is the analogy between the two domains?
12. Assume eye color has two possible alleles: A for brown eyes; and
a for blue eyes. An individual with the alleles A and a (denoted by
Aa) will have brown eyes (i.e., a does not aect the eye color in t