Biologists Must Constantly Keep In Mind That

Finally One Should Add That In Spite Of The Great Complexity Of Protein Synthesis And In Spite Of The Considerable Technical Difficulties In Synthesizing Polynucleotides With Defined Sequences It Is Not Unreasonable To Hope That All These Points Will Be Clarified In The Near Future, And That The Genetic Code Will Be Completely Established On A Sound Experimental Basis Within A Few Years.

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Do Codons Overlap? In Other Words, As We Read Along The Genetic Message Do We Find A Base Which Is A Member Of Two Or More Codons? It Now Seems Fairly Certain That Codons Do Not Overlap.

An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.

For Simplicity One Can Think Of The + Class As Having One Extra Base At Some Point Or Other In The Genetic Message And The - Class As Having One Too Few.