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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.

Francis Crick

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
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Biology Born Possible Reproduction Science
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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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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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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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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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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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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