Acid 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

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

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

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

— Preston Cloud

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

“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