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Unorthodox codon reading and the evolution of the genetic code

✍ Scribed by Lagerkvist, Ulf


Book ID
122997073
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
254 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0092-8674

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The function of DNA is to specify protein sequences. The four-base "alphabet" used in nucleic acids is translated to the 20 base alphabet of proteins (plus a stop signal) via the genetic code. The code is neither overlapping nor punctuated, but has mRNA sequences read in successive triplet codons un