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The expression 'error correcting code' can be understood as a code with the ability to detect and correct the presence of errors caused by noise or other impairments or mutations during transmission from the transmitter/nucleus to the receiver/organelle. It has the additional ability to reconstruct the error free original data. To check the error in information digits many error detecting and correcting codes have been developed. The main aim of these error correcting codes is to encode the information digits and decode these digits to correct the common errors in transmission. This information theory helps to study the information transmission in biological systems and extend the field of coding theory into the biological domain. In the cellular level, the information in DNA is transformed into proteins. The sequence of bases like Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Guanine (G) and Cytosine (C) in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) may be considered as digital codes which transmit genetic information. This paper shows the existence of an error correcting code in the DNA structure, by encoding the DNA sequences using Reed-Muller error correcting code.