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Complex-Dynamical Extension of the Fractal * Paradigm and Its Applications in Life Sciences A.P. Kirilyuk Institute of Metal Physics, 36 Vernadsky Av, Kiev-142, 03142 Ukraine e-mail: kiril@metfiz.freenet.kiev.ua Summary. Complex-dynamical fractal is a hierarchy of permanently, chaotically changing versions of system structure, obtained as the unreduced, causally probabilistic general solution to an arbitrary interaction problem. Intrinsic creativity of this extension of usual fractality determines its exponentially high operation efficiency, which underlies many specific functions of living systems, such as autonomous adaptability, “purposeful” development, intelligence and consciousness (at higher complexity levels). We outline in more detail genetic applications of complex-dynamic fractality, demonstrate the dominating role of genome interactions, and show that further progressive development of genetic research, as well as other life-science applications, should be based on the dynamically fractal structure analysis of interaction processes involved. We finally summarise the obtained extension of mathematical concepts and approaches closely related to their biological applications. 1 Introduction The success of fractal paradigm in bio-system structure analysis, as presented in this series of conferences [1-3], reflects high efficiency of fractal geometry in life function realisation conceived and used by nature itself. In a broader sense, fractal structure efficiency appears inevitably and naturally in a wide variety of real processes, from physico-chemical structures to economic system evolution [4-8], driven by unreduced interaction processes and often referred to as systems w