Tag: codons
The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry
When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it.
Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA).
Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis
Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble.
In Life, Not One Code but Many
It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code.
Another Language Found in Life: Immune Signaling
The authors, scientists at UCLA, compare their finding to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.