A Busy Life Is A Wasted Life.

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.

Jim And I Hit It Off Immediately, Partly Because Our Interests Were Astonishingly Similar And Partly, I Suspect, Because A Certain Youthful Arrogance, A Ruthlessness, An Impatience With Sloppy Thinking Can Naturally To Both Of Us.

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.

If The Code Does Indeed Have Some Logical Foundation Then It Is Legitimate To Consider All The Evidence, Both Good And Bad, In Any Attempt To Deduce It.

The Meaning Of This Observation Is Unclear, But It Raises The Unfortunate Possibility Of Ambiguous Triplets; That Is, Triplets Which May Code More Than One Amino Acid. However One Would Certainly Expect Such Triplets To Be In A Minority.