Calculating the Secrets of Life Contributions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology (1995) / Chapter Skim
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A Mathematician's Introduction to Molecular Biology 7 In the cross of the F1 generation (Aa) to the pure breeding wrinkled strain (aa)
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pair up to form base pairs in a certain way (Figure 1.5) so that the sequence of one chain completely specifies the sequence of the other: an A on one chain always corresponds to a T on the other, and a G to a C
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There remained the question of how the 4-letter alphabet of DNA could "encode" the instructions for the 20-letter alphabet of protein sequences. Biochemical studies over the next decade showed that genes correspond to specific stretches of DNA along a chromosome (much like individual files on a hard disk)
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(B) The table showing the correspondence between triplets of bases and amino acids is called the genetic code.
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. ., then it makes a protein chain consisting of only the amino acid phenylalanine (Phe)
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