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IN the past few months very important advances have been made concerning how the sequence of nucleotides in DNA corresponds to amino-acid sequences in protein synthesis. The work of Crick et al.1, of Matthaei and Niremberg2–4 and of Ochoa et al.5–7 gave definite answers to particular questions concerning the code in which information is written in DNA or RNA. It seems that such findings are even too abundant and precise, and at first sight it seems to be not an easy task to put all results together.
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AGENO, M. Deoxyribonucleic Acid Code. Nature 195, 998–999 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195998a0
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