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QUALITATIVE SURVEY OF RNA CODEWORDS

Author(s) -

Oliver W. Jones,

Marshall W. Nirenberg

Publication year - 1962

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.48.12.2115

Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , business , water quality , environmental resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , geography , environmental science , ecology , biology , philosophy , epistemology

In this article, Jones and Nirenberg provide a progress report on code translation efforts. They find that almost every amino acid tested can be coded by a polymer containing only two bases. The article includes approximations of nineteen triplet codewords and suggests that any theory concerning the physical basis of the code must explain the available data revealing the high coding efficiency of polynucleotides, marked codeword specificity, and degenerate codewords. The degeneracy model of Gamov and Watson-Crick pairing are among some of the ideas discussed.

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