Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered

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.

A Final Proof Of Our Ideas Can Only Be Obtained By Detailed Studies On The Alterations Produced In The Amino Acid Sequence Of A Protein By Mutations Of The Type Discussed Here.

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

One Can Say, Looking At The Papers In This Symposium, That The Elucidation Of The Genetic Code Is Indeed A Great Achievement. It Is, In A Sense, The Key To Molecular Biology Because It Shows How The Great Polymer Languages, The Nucleic Acid Language And The Protein Language, Are Linked Together.

Haemoglobin Is A Very Large Molecule By Ordinary Standards, Containing About Ten Thousand Atoms, But The Chances Are That Your Haemoglobin And Mine Are Identical, And Significantly Different From That Of A Pig Or Horse. You May Be Impressed By How Much Human Beings Differ From One Another, But If You Were To Look Into The Fine Details Of The Molecules Of Which They Are Constructed, You Would Be Astonished By Their Similarity.