In 1979, the present authors published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Vol. XV, No. 3) a model of radiation exchange by superconductant DNA. This mathematical treatment describes DNA as generating coherent waves which carry all the information contained in the nucleotide sequences into the molecule’s environment. The sets of acoustic wave equations derived in the model are written in Maxwellian form, as this relates more directly to the solenoidal dynamics of DNA’s helix-coil transitions than does the Schrödinger form of the quantum wave equation. These equation sets are unusual, however, in that the notion of orders of active temporal operators is introduced and written directly into the equations. Analysis of the properties of these active temporal operators suggests that the genetic language is not only composed of codons that are single-level ciphers. Indeed, the orders of nonlinear wave signatures of the nucleotide sequences which are hypothesized to coherently pulse from the molecule suggest a much more complex multivalued language, which couples single-valued codon sequences with environmental variables via coherent wave dynamics. This has considerable implication for likely negative impacts of the arbitrary gene splicing involved in recombinant DNA technologies.

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