O příbuznosti lingvistiky a biologie
O příbuznosti lingvistiky a biologie

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the history and current state of research where linguistics and biology meet on the base of interdisciplinary approach. We would like to introduce the use of quantitative text features (entropy, vocabulary richness, etc.) and quantitative text laws (Zipf ’s law, MenzerathAltman’s law) in the analysis of genetic text. We point out research in which similar text features of natural languages are observed on the genetic text. In particular, we focus on the field of molecular phylogenetics, the subject of which is to investigate the relationship of species and the reconstruction of the evolutionary tree of organisms. In the conclusion, we present step-by-step genetic analysis of interspecific relationships of selected crops of the Brassicaceae family using the Bag-ofwords model. Our aim is to stress that linguistic methods can be a good tool for gaining new knowledge about genetic texts, and we want to introduce a method for mapping evolutional relationships.

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