Genome complexity: stop is not always stop (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Friday, May 23, 2014, 15:54 (3597 days ago) @ David Turell

There are three recognized stop codons. But in some organisms they mean keep on coding.-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522141422.htm-This means the standard model of DNA is not exact all through living organisms.-"All along, we presumed that the code or vocabulary used by organisms was universal, applying to all branches of the tree of life, with vanishingly few exceptions," said DOE JGI Director Eddy Rubin, and senior author on the Science paper. "We have now confirmed that this just isn't so. There is a significant portion of life that uses different vocabularies where the same word means different things in different organisms."


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