Acid Quote by 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

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

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

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed…

— 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

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

“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

“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the…

— 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

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets,…

— Francis Crick

“For example, all three partners cooperate to make nutrients. To create the amino acid phenylalanine, they need nine enzymes. Tremblaya can build 1,2,5,6,7, and…

— Ed Yong

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