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A Comparison Between The Triplets Tentatively Deduced By These Methods With The Changes In Amino Acid Sequence Produced By Mutation Shows A Fair Measure Of Agreement.

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 That Triplets Coding The Same Amino Acid May Well Be Rather Similar.

Moreover The Incorporation Requires The Same Components Needed For Protein Synthesis, And Is Inhibited By The Same Inhibitors. Thus The System Is Most Unlikely To Be A Complete Artefact And Is Very Probably Closely Related To Genuine Protein Synthesis.

A Knowledge Of The True Age Of The Earth And Of The Fossil Record Makes It Impossible For Any Balanced Intellect To Believe In The Literal Truth Of Every Part Of The Bible In The Way That Fundamentalists Do.

It Now Seems Very Likely That Many Of The 64 Triplets, Possibly Most Of Them, May Code One Amino Acid Or Another, And That In General Several Distinct Triplets May Code One Amino Acid.