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The Genetic Code.<br />

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FIGURE 94. The Genetic Code, by which each triplet in a str<strong>and</strong> of messenger RNA codes<br />

for one of twenty amino acids (or a punctuation mark).<br />

Reductionistic Explanation of Protein Function<br />

Another discrepancy between Typogenetics <strong>and</strong> true genetics-<strong>and</strong> this is probably the most<br />

serious one of all-is this: whereas in Typogenetics, each component amino acid of an enzyme<br />

is responsible for some specific "piece of the action", in real enzymes, individual amino acids<br />

cannot be assigned such clear roles. It is the tertiary structure as a whole which determines<br />

the mode in which an enzyme will function; there is no way one can say, "This<br />

Self-Rep <strong>and</strong> Self-Rep 515

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