God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

Rather Than Believe That Watson And Crick Made The Dna Structure, I Would Rather Stress That The Structure Made Watson And 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 One Amino Acid. However One Would Certainly Expect Such Triplets To Be In A Minority.

Attempts Have Been Made From A Study Of The Changes Produced By Mutation To Obtain The Relative Order Of The Bases Within Various Triplets, But My Own View Is That These Are Premature Until There Is More Extensive And More Reliable Data On The Composition Of The Triplets.

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

Evolution Is Cleverer Than You Are.