Read this sentence and think!
‘A Santa dog lived as a devil god at NASA!’
No, I have not gone mad! (Not yet anyway!)
Or how about “sator arepo tenet opera rotas”!
Now now, it is not an ode to the movie Tenet! Or is it!?
Then how about Malayalam?
Well, what about it!?
They are all connected you see!
Forget words and sentences! Even our basic genetic structure is related to these words and sentences!
Before you get a syndrome! Let me ease your mind by telling you that these are Palindromes!
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar or the most famous one in this part; Malayalam!
Dating back to about 70 AD—the first palindromes were found as graffiti at Herculaneum and was written in Latin and dates back to Roman times. It read “sator arepo tenet opera rotas”, which could be translated two ways:
“The sower Arepo leads with his hand the plough”.
or
“The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort”!
Other sentence “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama”, “Mr. Owl ate my metal worm”, “Do geese see God?”, or “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”.
Punctuation, capitalization, and spaces are usually ignored. Some, such as “Rats live on no evil star”, “Live on time, emit no evil”, and “Step on no pets”, include the spaces!
Apparently there’s even a new word, “emordnilap”, inspired by palindromes!
According to Guinness World Records, the Finnish 19-letter word saippuakivikauppias (a soapstone vendor), is the world’s longest palindromic word in everyday use!
The longest single-word palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter onomatopoeic word tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door!
The 9-letter word Rotavator, a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is listed in dictionaries as being the longest single-word palindrome.
The 9-letter term redivider is used by some writers, but appears to be an invented or derived term; only redivide and redivision appear in the Shorter
Of course our most famous and known Palindrome is the 9-letter word Malayalam!
Palindromic motifs are also found in most genomes or sets of genetic instructions. The meaning of palindrome in the context of genetics is slightly different, from the definition used for words and sentences. Since the DNA is formed by two paired strands of nucleotides, and the nucleotides always pair in the same way (Adenine (A) with Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) with Guanine (G)), a (single-stranded) sequence of DNA is said to be a palindrome if it is equal to its complementary sequence read backward. For example, the sequence ACCTAGGT is palindromic because its complement is TGGATCCA, which is equal to the original sequence in reverse complement!
So as you see is what you get! From back or front, it is the same! That’s Palindrome!
‘now u won!’
No! Not yet gone mad! That’s also a Palindrome!
Now try to make a big one and maybe win a Padma! For time being though it’s for those who do real ground work like Padma award winner Chaitram pawar!
‘Now sleep eels won!’
Yeah! That another one by me!
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