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Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.
Francis Crick
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Francis Crick
Age: 88 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 8
Died: 2004
Died: July 28
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis H.C. Crick
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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.
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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?
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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