A Good Scientist Values Criticism Almost Higher

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.

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Attempts Have Been Made From A Study Of The Changes Produced By Mutation To Obtain The Relative Order Of The Bases Within Various Triplets, But My Own View Is That These Are Premature Until There Is More Extensive And More Reliable Data On The Composition Of The Triplets.

Moreover The Incorporation Requires The Same Components Needed For Protein Synthesis, And Is Inhibited By The Same Inhibitors. Thus The System Is Most Unlikely To Be A Complete Artefact And Is Very Probably Closely Related To Genuine Protein Synthesis.

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