You Can Do Reverse Engineering,

Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered At The Molecular Level, And Without Understanding Molecules We Can Only Have A Very Sketchy Understanding Of Life Itself.

One Of The Most Frightening Things In The Western World, And In This Country In Particular, Is The Number Of People Who Believe In Things That Are Scientifically False. If Someone Tells Me That The Earth Is Less Than 10,000 Years Old, In My Opinion He Should See A Psychiatrist.

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

It Has Yet To Be Shown By Direct Biochemical Methods, As Opposed To The Indirect Genetic Evidence Mentioned Earlier, That The Code Is Indeed A Triplet Code.

It Now Seems Very Likely That Many Of The 64 Triplets, Possibly Most Of Them, May Code One Amino Acid Or Another, And That In General Several Distinct Triplets May Code One Amino Acid.