dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (05/24/85)
>> [Paul DuBois] >> ... >> (My prediction regarding the future interpretation of the divergences >> in the genetic code that have been found recently) > [Dave Fritzinger] > If you read the articles, I think you'll see that the changes in the code > are really quite minor. By this I mean that one or two stop codons have > been changed so that they now code for an amino acid. The changes found *so far* are minor. What percentage of the organisms on the earth have been studied? Are you willing to say that we'll *never* find any further divergences? I'm not saying we *will* -- how would I know? -- but we certainly can't say we *won't*. How about Z-DNA? What's next? > It's still pretty > amazing that human beings and E. coli both have the same code, and it must > say something about the relatedness of life on Earth. Yes, but what? -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | |