Code Quote by 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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently…

— Francis Crick

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

— Iain McGilchrist

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

— Dan Lipinski