Now this.
Not only is the genetic code a language, it is two languages with two different purposes stacked onto the same chemical sequence.
From the original article: "The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other"
David Klinghoffer responds: "But think about how implausible this is. Let's say I write an article in English about Subject A. But ingeniously I choose my words in such a way that the article can also be read in a different language, providing information about a related but separate Subject B. Meditate for a moment on the ingenuity this would take -- not only that, but the forethought, with imagining a complex, distant goal being the first step in the process."
The
genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team
discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two
meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene
control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each
other. - See more at:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf
The
genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team
discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two
meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene
control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each
other. - See more at:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf
The
genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team
discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two
meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene
control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each
other. - See more at:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf
