God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

Finally One Should Add That In Spite Of The Great Complexity Of Protein Synthesis And In Spite Of The Considerable Technical Difficulties In Synthesizing Polynucleotides With Defined Sequences It Is Not Unreasonable To Hope That All These Points Will Be Clarified In The Near Future, And That The Genetic Code Will Be Completely Established On A Sound Experimental Basis Within A Few Years.

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

Again The Message To Experimentalists Is: Be Sensible But Don't Be Impressed Too Much By Negative Arguments. If At All Possible, Try It And See What Turns Up. Theorists Almost Always Dislike This Sort Of Approach.

It Would Appear That The Number Of Nonsense Triplets Is Rather Low, Since We Only Occasionally Come Across Them. However This Conclusion Is Less Secure Than Our Other Deductions About The General Nature Of The Genetic Code.

You’re Nothing But A Pack Of Neurons.