Abstract
RNA sociology investigates the behavioral motifs of RNA consortia from the social science perspective. Besides the self-folding of RNAs into single stem loop structures, group building of such stem loops results in a variety of essential agents that are highly active in regulatory processes in cellular and non-cellular life. RNA stem loop self-folding and group building do not depend solely on sequence syntax; more important are their contextual (functional) needs. Also, evolutionary processes seem to occur through RNA stem loop consortia that may act as a complement. This means the whole entity functions only if all participating parts are coordinated, although the complementary building parts originally evolved for different functions. If complementary groups, such as rRNAs and tRNAs, are placed together in selective pressure contexts, new evolutionary features may emerge. Evolution initiated by competent agents in natural genome editing clearly contrasts with statistical error replication narratives.
Highlights
In contrast with the evolutionary narratives favoring selection of random replication errors of nucleic acids that constitute the genetic text, we do not know any real-life languages or codes that have emerged as randomly derived replication errors of sequences of characters [1,2]
If we look at the sequence structure of nucleic acid codes, some RNA stem loop groups are currently known to play vital roles in editing genetic text as a read and write medium [13,14]
RNAs that can form both simple base-pairing stems with non base-pairing loops by self folding, as RNA stem loops become subject to biological selection
Summary
In contrast with the evolutionary narratives favoring selection of random replication errors of nucleic acids that constitute the genetic text, we do not know any real-life languages or codes that have emerged as randomly derived replication errors of sequences of characters [1,2]. In non-human living beings, such as plants, fungi and prokaryotes they are transported by small molecules in crystallized, fluid or gaseous forms [3,4,5,6]. Context, not syntax, determines the meaning (semantics) of the signs in messages that are used to communicate and to coordinate group behavior This is precisely why the same sentence, or the same syntactic sequence structure of any language or code, can have different and in extreme cases opposite meanings and can be represented by different functions [7]. This is the reason why natural sciences, such as physics and chemistry, cannot explain biological communication, because the rule-following of living agents that communicate is different to underlying unchangeable natural laws [12]
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