What is it about?
The Standard Genetic Code (SGC) is common to all known Earth creatures, suggesting a common origin for protein synthesis in every known organism. The ancient events leading to this near-universal biological characteristic are of broad scientific importance. This text presents a novel, detailed, data-based pathway for formation of an SGC, as well as a new method for evaluating origin pathways. Significantly, the SGC can evolve using only well-known chemical, physical and biological means.
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Why is it important?
The Standard Genetic Code (SGC) contains extensive evidence of one of the oldest and most significant events of Earth Biology. As such, it presents a rare text about the dawn of life. To understand the SGC is to decode an ancient message from a lost planet's first creatures.
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This work suggests that one need not only speculate about ancient events; a most probable path for ancient evolution can be calculated by identifying a more probable, rapid path to a complex biological ability.
Michael Yarus Yarus
University of Colorado Boulder
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This page is a summary of: Fitting the standard genetic code into its triplet table, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021103118.
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