Dna Semantics....

a: Codon ~
b: word

What: "Notice how similar this organization is to a written language. A base is like a letter. A codon is like a word, a gene like a sentence. An operon can perhaps be likened to a paragraph, and a chromosome is like a chapter. And the genome would then be the entire book. "

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Writer: Mark Johansen
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Date: May 3 2013 11:26 AM


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