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An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.

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.

It Has Yet To Be Shown By Direct Biochemical Methods, As Opposed To The Indirect Genetic Evidence Mentioned Earlier, That The Code Is Indeed A Triplet Code.

If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

If Poly A Is Added To Poly U, To Form A Double Or Triple Helix, The Combination Is Inactive.