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A Search for the Physical Basis of the Genetic Code.
Rel. Jacek Adam Tuszynski. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2024
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Abstract
A Search for the Physical Basis of the Genetic Code. Genetic code is one of the greatest mysteries of biology: it is shared by basically every living organism on this planet, with little to none differences between species that can be very far away from each other from an evolutionary point of view. Not only organisms share similar DNA structures and protein synthesis methods: the translation from a base triplet to the respective amino acid, i.e the genetic code, is found to be surprisingly consistent among all living creatures. The genetic code is not only stable between different species, but also through millions of years of evolution: it has been almost identical to itself for a very long time.
Researchers strongly believe that there must be a reason behind this: “survival of the fittest” is a widely known expression that states that during evolution only the most suit survives and keeps on proliferating, which hints that there must have been some force pushing all organisms to adopt this code
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