Polytope of Hereditary Information

Abstract

Variants of damage to DNA and the polytope of hereditary information under the influence of radiation, chemical reactions, and the possibility of restoring DNA functions, including with the help of methyl groups, are considered. The geometric features of nucleic acids during methylation of their nitrogenous bases, which is typical for viral nucleic acids in infectious diseases, were studied. It was found that methylation of viral nucleic acids leads to the transition of their nitrogenous bases into the space of higher dimension and sharply increases (more than 2000 times) the intensity of information processes in the field of interaction of nucleic acids (in the polytopic of hereditary information). The activity of methylated viral nucleic acids can be countered by activation, i.e. a fairly high degree of methylation, nucleic acids of the organism.