Code Quote by Francis Crick

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that…

— Francis Crick

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than…

— Francis Crick

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

“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

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one…

— Francis Crick

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up…

— Michael Specter

Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing…

— Francis Crick

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

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure…

— Francis Crick

“Genes were no longer mysterious embodiments of specificity, they were information – a code – that could be transmitted (another word from the electronic…

— Matthew Cobb