Exact Knowledge Is The Enemy Of Vitalism.

What Could Be More Foolish Than To Base One's Entire View Of Life On Ideas That, However Plausible At The Time, Now Appear To Be Quite Erroneous? And What Would Be More Important Than To Find Our True Place In The Universe By Removing One By One These Unfortunate Vestiges Of Earlier Beliefs?

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.

Protein Synthesis Is A Central Problem For The Whole Of Biology, And That It Is In All Probability Closely Related To Gene Action.

It Has Not Escaped Our Notice That The Specific Pairing We Have Postulated Immediately Suggests A Possible Copying Mechanism For The Genetic Material.

It Would Appear That The Number Of Nonsense Triplets Is Rather Low, Since We Only Occasionally Come Across Them. However This Conclusion Is Less Secure Than Our Other Deductions About The General Nature Of The Genetic Code.