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In this chapter, we briefly introduce the basic concept of molecular biology and also biological information processing in general. As a detailed example of the information processing phenomena (signal recognition, transformation, and biological response) in a living system, we explain the diauxie (two phase) growth of Escherichia coli in glucose and lactose mixed medium and show the mechanistic simulation of the system according to the systems biology approach. In addition, we introduce epigenetic mutation as another example for the information processing in a living system.

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  1. Liberal Arts Division, Tokuyama College of Technology, Tokuyama, Japan

    Masanari Asano

  2. International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics and Cognitive Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Andrei Khrennikov

  3. Information Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

    Masanori Ohya & Yoshiharu Tanaka

  4. Department of Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

    Ichiro Yamato

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Asano, M., Khrennikov, A., Ohya, M., Tanaka, Y., Yamato, I. (2015). Fundamentals of Molecular Biology. In: Quantum Adaptivity in Biology: From Genetics to Cognition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9819-8_3

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