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Mar. 24th, 2005 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackI hadn't realised that the A in ATP, adenosine triphosphate, the universal fuel of cellular processes, was the same chemical as the A in the ACGT genetic alphabet. Had you?
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Date: 2005-03-24 03:29 pm (UTC)Oh, and haven't yet got round to reading the links from your last post, which look fascinating, but I commend to your attention a review article in Trends in Genetics Vol. 20 No. 2 [ Feb 2004 ] entitled "Driving Change: the evolution of alternative genetic codes", by Santos, Moura et al, which draws together a number of ways in which the idea of a single genetic code has had to be expanded on, which I think fits in the same sort of conceptual space.