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Attempts Have Been Made From A Study Of The Changes Produced By Mutation To Obtain The Relative Order Of The Bases Within Various Triplets, But My Own View Is That These Are Premature Until There Is More Extensive And More Reliable Data On The Composition Of The Triplets.

It Now Seems Certain That The Amino Acid Sequence Of Any Protein Is Determined By The Sequence Of Bases In Some Region Of A Particular Nucleic Acid Molecule.

The Major Credit I Think Jim And I Deserve Is For Selecting The Right Problem And Sticking To It. It's True That By Blundering About We Stumbled On Gold, But The Fact Remains That We Were Looking For Gold.

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.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clicks Into Place. One Immediately Sees How Many Previously Puzzling Facts Are Neatly Explained By The New Hypothesis. One Could Kick Oneself For Not Having The Idea Earlier, It Now Seems So Obvious. Yet Before, Everything Was In A Fog.