It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
FRANCIS CRICKIt is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
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