Alphabet

... in a word and each code (in this case codon) can then be translated to help create other things. Think of the four nucleotides as letters in an alphabet. There are many different combinations of these letters which can translate into words, in this case amino acids. Amino acids can be thought ...

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... synthetic biology? For example, I am particularly thinking of glycosylation events and carbohydrates, which have been described as nature's third alphabet akin to nucleotides and amino acids. There are known examples of where aberrant glycosylation can be induced onto certain proteins. The proteins ...

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... the largest system you get tryptophan ;) For the acidic AAs, just add carboxyl to Ala and you get aspartic acid. Since G lutamic acid is later in alphabet, it is longer by one carbon. The amides are just likewise. The basic AAs (hey, how stupid is the English, since it calls basic and basic with ...

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... in any way and, if left to the wonder and live for themselves, would die. When the brain is taken away, the individual may not have to learn the alphabet (which is unnecessary to surviving in the wild) but the individual will also loose their center for THINKING and ACTING and CONTROLLING THEIR ...

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... in any way and, if left to the wonder and live for themselves, would die. When the brain is taken away, the individual may not have to learn the alphabet (which is unnecessary to surviving in the wild) but the individual will also loose their center for THINKING and ACTING and CONTROLLING THEIR ...

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