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- From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: Mutations: Mostly Harmful, or Not?
- Message-ID: <792@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:24:26 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.152155.3619@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1992Jul22.195306.29998@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Jul30.010858.13987@cs.mun.ca> <1582faINNijg@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1582faINNijg@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jdale@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Dale) writes:
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- |Wait, are you saying that some combinations code for nothing? ie, they don't
- |code for either amino acids or stop/start codes? If so, that's wrong; while
- |there are 64 possible combinations and only 20 amino acids, most (all?) amino
- |acids are coded by 2-4 different (usually similar) combinations. ...
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- Hey, didn't we go through this last month?
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- Yes, most AAs are coded for by 2-4 combinations, usually closely grouped.
- There are also a few that have 6 codes.
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- But there *are* two combinations that do not code for any AA. They are
- the STOP/END-OF-MESSAGE codes, that terminate protein synthesis.
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