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Built-In Error Correction
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.
Yet the genetic code within each of your cells is an even more sophisticated information storage and transmission system.
REF: Fersht, A.R. 1980. Trends in Biochemical Science, v. 5. p. 282. Lambert, G.R. 1984. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 107. p. 387.
Photo: Chart showing the relationship between codons and amino acids. Courtesy of Seth Miller.
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