Certain Quote by Francis Crick

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show…

— Francis Crick

“The genetic code is a product of biology and is messy, illogical and inelegant. It is highly redundant, but to bewilderingly varied degrees: one…

— Matthew Cobb

“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually nothing of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a…

— Francis Crick

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together…

— Francis Crick

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of…

— Lewis Thomas

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and…

— Francis Crick

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed…

— Richard Dawkins

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the…

— Francis Crick

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

— Severo Ochoa

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

— Richard Dawkins

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less…

— Francis Crick